#2055 - Tim Kennedy

1 Nov 2023 · 2 h 42 min

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The Joe Rogan Experience - Episode #2055: Tim Kennedy

Guest: Tim Kennedy Podcast Host: Joe Rogan Description: A discussion with Tim Kennedy, a retired Green Beret, UFC fighter, and founder of Sheepdog Response. Topics include military experiences, current global conflicts, personal philosophies, and societal issues.

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Episode Overview

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Tim Kennedy joins Joe Rogan for a deep dive into various subjects ranging from global conflicts, personal anecdotes, societal issues, and personal philosophies on fitness and preparedness. Tim shares insights from his military career and discusses his current efforts in education and defense training.

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Key Topics Discussed

  1. Coffee and Community
  • Coffee Culture: Kennedy discusses his love for high-quality coffee, particularly the blends offered by Black Rifle Coffee Company.
  • Community Gathering: Anecdotes of shared experiences like elk hunting camp with friends, emphasizing the importance of camaraderie and shared passions.
  1. Adventures and Extremes
  • Skydiving and Base Jumping: Kennedy talks about skydiving and the thrill of extreme sports, contrasting it with the risks involved.
  • Driving and Racing: Conversation about the adrenaline rush of car racing and the skill levels required to excel in various sports.
  1. Military and Global Conflicts
  • Involvement in Global Crises: Kennedy outlines his involvement in major global crises, including Afghanistan, the US-Mexico border, Ukraine, and Israel.
  • Experiences at the Border: Details his challenging experiences combating human trafficking and drug smuggling.
  1. Philosophies on Health and Preparedness
  • Fitness and Longevity: Importance of maintaining physical fitness and a disciplined lifestyle.
  • Mental Health and Community Support: Kennedy emphasizes looking to "helpers" in times of crisis for inspiration and support.
  1. Education and Societal Issues
  • Public School System Critique: Criticism of the current education system and the lack of personal responsibility among younger generations.
  • Apogee Education Program: Introduction of a new educational approach focused on family involvement and critical thinking.
  1. Free Speech and Censorship
  • Censorship Concerns: Discusses concerns about censorship and misinformation, especially regarding social media platforms and their influence on public discourse.
  • Media Manipulation: The impact of media on shaping public perception and the challenges of discerning truthful information.
  1. Personal Development and Sovereignty
  • Self-Reliance: Encourages personal sovereignty, defined as self-reliance and the ability to protect and provide for oneself and family.
  • Martial Arts and Discipline: Advocacy for martial arts as a means of developing discipline and personal resilience.
  1. Political Climate and National Security
  • Vulnerability of the US: Kennedy expresses concerns over the national security of the United States and the need for individual preparedness.
  • Term Limits and Government Reform: Discussion on the necessity of government reform, including term limits for officials.

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Takeaways

  • Community and Purpose: The importance of community and finding purpose through shared experiences, fitness, and personal development.
  • Preparedness as a Lifestyle: Emphasizing the significance of being physically and mentally prepared for life's challenges.
  • Critical Thinking in Education: Advocating for a more engaged and critically-thinking approach to education and personal growth.
  • Resilience in Adversity: Finding strength and purpose in helping others during crisis situations.

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Conclusion

This episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with Tim Kennedy provides an insightful look into the life of someone who has consistently faced high-pressure situations. It highlights the importance of community, preparedness, and personal development in navigating the complexities of modern life.

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0:03The Joe Rogan Experience Show me my day, Joe Rogan podcast my night all day Don't you have anything special? Do you like Evan make this for you? Yes, black rifle I don't know what blend it is I'm being fully transparent I only like the bougie black rifle blends The bougie blends? Yeah, like I like the Ethiopian stuff Yeah, like Evan Evan will be like Oh, so I, you know, SoulSource selected this crew, this being from this place And I roasted it this way, I'm like, oh, it's gonna be good And it's good Well, every year I do elk hunting camp with Evan We share an elk hunting camp in California So we just got back And so Evan makes coffee for us every day So he gets up and he fucking hand measures everything And he brings his own fucking special blends He had two different blends Because he knows I like a dark roast And then he had this Really bizarre exotic coffee that tasted different than anything I'd ever had before It was like kind of like Almost like a sweet Like almost like a tea taste to it Like he just He's a master He was using tax paying dollars To start his coffee obsession Was he really?

1:19Yeah, so when he was both in group and at the agency He would take, you know, we have discretionable funds That you can spend on whenever And area improvement is an appropriate way for you to spend money So he would buy like a $20 ,000 espresso machine And, you know, a $3 ,000 grinder In some middle of nowhere Ford operating base where he's making coffee And like just being a total nerd It's all taxpayer money It's awesome That finally something's been used with tax paying dollars that benefits the soldier Which is rare We ran out of coffee filters And someone was like, well, just use paper towels And he just let, fuck no, we're not going to use paper towels He's like, dude, we're not using paper towels He's a little bit, he's mighty He's very serious He's not using paper towels He's very serious about his coffee Or he's going to have a next one He's into his place in Utah Yeah The lab that he has set up at Black Rifle Yeah, he made me do like insane One of the little tastes where they like do this thing with the spoon And then there, you have to smell it first And you have to do something with your tongue And I was like, is this, what are we doing here?

2:30I can't do that, I can't go that far It's like with wine Like when people like, oh, hence of oak I don't, I like it I like it, you can do that This goes well without eating right now I have a friend, my friend Matt, I'll call he's a real wine freak And I'll just like show him a photo of like the wine page at a restaurant Like, what should I get? And he'll tell me, he'll just text me, he loves it So I'm like, good, I've got that farmed off If I can outsource things Yeah, I don't have to keep on my brain Yeah, I do not want to have to pay attention Well, you are so good And that's how I do it with coffee, too Like Evan's like, I'll send you a bag of that stuff I'm like, great, what was it again?

3:08I forget what it was But it was like fruity and fun Another one like, as Jack Carr is so incredible, Evan So I'm Skydiving all, I was supposed to be Skydiving all last week, but it was in Israel And then, so I had to move it to the right Because we're doing this Moab jump with a bunch of your friends, Mike Sirelli and Mike Glover and Evan And so I like, I need to brush off, knock off the dust a little bit So I, Evan, and he sends me this like super fancy designed helmet from Black Rifle A Skydive helmet at G3E4 Just like, just sent it to me You know, I was like, all right, this is really cool You know, I mean, Skydiving with this helmet that is way above my ability Because I'm just total Skydrasher I have never, and I'm not doing it I have zero desire, I don't get it I don't get any stomp with this fucking flying squirrel suit, fuck you I hope you're doing that Of course, he, that's easy for him He's used to the flying squirrel suit I think it's one of regular Skydiving ain't shit I asked Andy if he'd be interested in helping me do base jump stuff And wing suit stuff, and just all I got was no And he's like, can you expand on that?

4:22He's like, all of my friends I used to do this with are dead, so no Tim Okay, well, great conversation, that was fun That is the death rate in that stuff Like he was telling me, like how many, like if you send out fucking 20 people to do that How many come back? It's not good No, yeah You find a different hobby It's not good Do you ever see the video where the guy is trying to fly in between the arches of a bridge? The sound, the clang of metal When his meat and bones hit that bridge? It was terrible It was like a watermelon traveling at 200 miles an hour Impacting metal Yeah And you can't imagine what that sound, like you imagine what that sound would be until you hear it And that was a watermelon with bone slamming against metal Which was a human, which is now nothing Nothing A splatter, it's instantaneous I mean, he's probably going 100 miles an hour Yeah Faster Probably Yeah, how fast do you go with those things?

5:27Like if 140, so like if you're in a dive position You're going 160 to 200 miles an hour And if you're stable flying, you know, maybe 140 Yeah, so when you're like navigating like he was I'm happy he was going 140, 150 miles an hour Jesus Which really makes you appreciate nature and evolution That the Paragon Falcon does like, what does it do? Like 220 or something? It's insane And it can change on a dime It's like flip It says you can go up to 220 horizontally Oh! Oh! Fast 220 in a car fucking feels insane I've never done it I don't know, but I mean, I've done like We went to the local racetrack that place up there, Koda Oh, our light's not on We went to Koda recently And Koda gets up to like I mean, we were in a Lamborghini, we went to like 147 And that feels fucking insane, at a racetrack I got it I got it, you got it Oh, there we go Yeah, that long straightaway Into that almost 180 turn On a motorcycle is one of the scariest things I have ever felt Have you done that track?

6:40Yeah Oh, that track is awesome Yeah, except for that, like my testicles were up into my stomach Yeah And I thought I'm a brave courageous human And then I was just 100 % coward on a racetrack Right Well, at least if you wipe out, you just kind of like We were watching Formula One there That is fucking wild Those guys are flying They're going so much faster than regular cars You can really get a perspective when you've actually driven around the car in like a GT car To track rather And then you see those guys Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It's wild And there's levels too Every time I think that I'm good at something Then you go with somebody that's actually good at that thing Yes And then you're like, I am so trash Yeah, I thought I knew how to drive a car Until I got lessons And I'm like, oh, I suck at driving too That's great These are the long litany of things that I suck at Yeah Which are just made so clear And then unfortunately I don't want to suck at it So now I have this new addiction Now I want to go to the fucking track all the time Which is not the best thing for like time management Yeah Because it's a fucking full day thing You know, it's like golf or something like that Like I've never played golf and I won't play golf Because it's a time management thing Yeah Like I don't have that Like Ron White and Tony Hinchcliff They go out and they play for fucking eight hours I'm like, bro, I don't have eight hours ever You get stuff done on the golf course No, you don't Maybe if you're a hedge fund manager And you want to figure out how to rip people off I enjoy the I'm shooting and golf have a lot in common Like precision rifle So I enjoy that portion of it So I definitely don't need to do this other thing With a club and a ball I have a pool addiction Which is very similar The billiards I play pool at a pretty high level And I have a real problem I can play eight, nine hours a day Those are easy Those are dorks Yeah Real pool nerds Oh yeah They're genius And they're weird And they're so freaking good They're so fucking smart That's what's crazy Like really good pool players are fucking smart Because you have to be Because you have to, it's problem solving You have to figure out how to manage geometry And also feel And then you have to execute the shot too Under pressure Very similar to Jitsu In the archery Now this physical application of this mental complex problem Yeah That is, you know, in real time Changing Every second Yeah, I think Jitsu is the most complex of those things And the most, but it's also the one that breaks your body the most That's the problem with Jitsu You're really good in this long I've totally changed Now that all of these monsters have moved to Austin And what I Another example of where I thought I was just as freak grappler Until I met real freak grapplers Right And I'm not even top 20 I'm maybe top 100 now And so that realization With the Jean -Claude Badonees And the Gordon Ryan's the Victor Hugo And the Marigales and the Craig Jones is You know, like, is it a while how many fucking people are you And they're all in your mind too How is it in his Academy this morning It's amazing This episode is brought to you by Oracle AI is coming to your industry If it isn't already here But AI needs lots of speed and computing power So how do you compete without cost spiraling Upgrade to Oracle cloud infrastructure Or OCI OCI is the blazing fast and secure platform For your infrastructure database Application development And AI workloads Right now Oracle is offering To cut your current cloud bill in half If you move to OCI For new U .S.

10:23customers With minimum financial commitment Offer end March 31st See if your company qualifies At Oracle .com Slash Rogan This episode is brought to you by Buffalo Trace Distillery Actually have some Buffalo Trace cigars here they just sent me One of the world's most award winning distilleries That's been making whiskey the same way for more than 200 years Made as a tribute to the rugged free spirited pioneers Who blaze their own trail To new frontiers It embodies the perfectly untamed spirit of independence It defines what an award winning bourbon should be Age nearly twice as long as competitors In new charred white oak barrels And bottled at 90 proof Buffalo Trace is the perfect bourbon To be enjoyed in any way Anywhere And the taste it's damn good It's bold and sophisticated Yet incredibly smooth Finishing long and deep It's authentically American Representing uncompromising quality for the rugged The powerful and the passionate Tap the banner to learn more Or visit buffalotracedistillery .com That's buffalotracedistillery .com Distilled, aged, and bottled by Buffalo Trace Distillery 90 proof, Franklin County, Kentucky, Buffalo Trace American, family -owned, independent, and perfectly untamed I mean, no, no, it's not amazing, Joe It's not I'm saying this is the spectrum of a great Another thing that I'm trash at But I've totally changed, I want to do Jitsu and tell him 100 years old And so I'm so intentional about what my roles are, who my life goes Or with That's important It's so important And also keeping, you're very good at keeping up your physical body Which a lot of people are not, they just roll Yeah, and they just train Which you really can't I split my effort in a week Almost evenly between, you know, grappling, striking Physical development, strength speed And then like that long recovery, longevity, aspect of it Like, that's how my week is broken into for my training You almost have to treat your body like a pit crew You know, like you really have to change your fucking tires You gotta do the whole thing You can't just like, how they look good No, you gotta like really treat it like There's a methodical approach that must be done In order to race If you want to train You kind of have to do that It's not good for the ego I got away with it when I was, you know, 25 and fighting But you got away with it while you were Also active duty, which is pretty crazy Yeah, I should have Been a little bit more intentional Disciplined about how I spent my time And I took youth for granted Everybody does Youth is wasted on the young Is it a world?

13:30Especially when you're dumb That is hard Well, most young people are dumb And it's supposed young people that do the kind of stuff That we enjoy We did dumb stuff Everything's good, man Everything's really good Shooting bow yesterday My buddy Tyson Got Rob from Roca Gave him a bow Another great person that does great things for people That I resent You never gave me a bow I was never given a bow How does this just happen? So he came over and Do you want one? No, I got a great bow Where do you get a bow from? From archery country That's my spot Yeah, I was there this morning I got an archery contribution on it right here Yeah, let's go I got six new arrows today I Shot through one of my archery targets And it hit the wood in the back And I was like inspecting my arrow And I saw like this just little tiny fine line Along the side of it and I was like, you're done Oh, carbon?

14:28Yeah, you got to be really careful About that, a lot of those explode And it goes through people's hands I can't, I love those videos I can't watch them but I love them Do you watch them? Yeah, I've seen them Yeah, I don't enjoy them I check all my shit religiously though Because of that I used to, I had a tough long glove that I tried to wear for a while A lot of guys wear a tough long glove To make sure that never happens But it's like, it's never happened to me I've been shooting a bow for 10 years I love it Yeah, it's great I've built about 180 degree 3D archery range in the backyard And back three acres I got full size elk And pigs and coyotes And a bunch of little deer So anywhere from 100 yards I hate that I have to say yards Instead of meters We should have changed over We almost did when I was in, like, I guess I was in high school And they were trying to change everybody over And this is so much easier It makes more sense America's so fucked up with that We're like, nah, fuck the rest of the world Inches bitch We made it to the moon off of inches and feet Great, thanks It's a long time ago Fuck soccer The rest of the world is like on the metric system Like, mmm I love how England still sticks with, well, they do stone They're still with the stone thing The dumbest unit of measurement When we used to do fights over there And I had to do the weigh -ins I used to have to say stone as well as pounds It's like, okay Why are we doing that?

15:51Is this confusing when I just say pounds It's confusing enough when we have to throw on How much somebody weighs in kilos And then how much they weigh in pounds And we throw in stones And we're just like, okay Kilos, Celsius, all that, like, I was watching this video This guy was talking about, well, it's 30 degrees out So it's a nice day to go out and shoot I was like, 30 degrees I was like, oh, he's in Canada All right, okay, you kind of honest Using that bullshit metric Doesn't really are right now, too They are, they're full on I never thought it would happen that fast Bro, it's so bad, I'm worried that my podcast Is going to be censored in Canada Because it's going to Pass some new fucking legislation where they're allowed to Like, the whole idea is like, it's Under the guise of Canadian content Because they have a Canadian content law Where they, like, you have to have a certain amount of Canadian Based content on, like, the radio And television and stuff like that You can't just have all stuff from all over the world Whatever people like You have to have a certain percentage of it has to be Canadian And so, under the guise of that But really, it's true dough Trying to enforce censorship On podcasts because They always do it in the cover And every Dangerous Freedom censoring group Does it under this idea of they're doing it for the greater good Yes You know, it's like whether it's diversity, equity, and inclusion Or it's making sure that Prok, not disinformation Or misinformation is being populated within the masses It's always through this veil of No, no, it's for your benefit But you pull the veil back a little bit And you, it's just censorship It's just control Yeah, they're just trying to manipulate What information's available for people to To try to base their opinions off of Have you ever seen that video of true dough From, like, 10 years ago I mean, it might have been for more, it might have been like 2010 and he's talking about how he's opposed to Do you got a coffee in there?

17:45Yeah, salute my friend, cheers He's opposed to regulations with guns Because he's like regulations are the first step That they take and the ultimate goal is to remove your guns So, we will not have regulations Like, he's talking about this Like, in 2010 or 2011 I mean, he was following a playbook So, he absolutely didn't believe that though Because he knew that in, you know, within a decade He would be trying to confiscate every single gun He could use hands on and make transfer of pistols illegal Which is illegal It's illegal, if I have a pistol and I want to sell you a pistol I cannot That's it So wild, it's so wild how quick it changed over there They used COVID to just enforce the sweeping Legislations across all sectors They don't have a free speech They don't have a first amendment over there So, they have hate speech laws Which could be interpreted so vaguely And this is what Jordan Peterson was rallying against Like, back when they had this bill That was set up to make people use someone's gender identity And he was like, what gender identity you're talking about There's 78 current gender identities That someone can choose to identify with Including just complete nonsense, made -up words And it's going to keep going I don't know how many of them there are now But it's like, the only way you enforce this Is with, you're going to have to use force And it's like the rule of law Now it's like, you're going to send armed thugs To arrest people for not using made -up words Like, this is where this goes Especially Peterson who knows so much about communism And so much about where The darkness that it leads down to Yeah, I love that he approaches it both from Like a philosophical perspective and a historical perspective You know, he is so well versed and knowledgeable And the argument that they're making from this position This is where it leads to And not only do we understand this in human nature And here's a bunch of examples of it But then also historically, here's a bunch of examples of it So it makes it really hard to dispute what is Really logical and rational And if you're here and they want to go from point A to point B This is the process for them to get there Yes And you're like, yeah, another brilliant man that does a lot of good Well, you need a guy like him Who has such a deep understanding of history And also is a clinical psychologist Who understands the human mind on a very, very deep level So he can explain things in a way that is Almost impossible to refute Like, he's got all his bases covered When he discusses the subject And he can fucking pull it off of his head The guy uses his no notes And he just will quote things and explain things And the most complex manner And make it pal...

20:38Make it absorbable to everybody Yeah, he and I are We're in a parallel fight right now on the education side You know, I have Apogee, which is I have a physical school here and we have an online mentorship And we're launching an additional 50 schools This year started a big, huge foundation The Apogee Foundation All just to turn this public school problem on its year As we've indoctrinated this entire generation To hate America And, you know, we're in a really scary position Military is having recruiting issues You know, we're having identity problems In every imaginable way with this You know, Gen Z and Millennials Just not knowing what their purpose is And when you look at the public school system And the Department of Education It's just a broken system Teachers are great Most of them on majority I think have a real pure heart to do good But they're in a system that is forcing them Or they're allowing to manipulate kids To radicalize them into Into really anti -American ideas And something has to change Because the current trajectory Were screwed You know, the The lack of individual responsibility And as Jaco would say, extreme ownership Of what the issues are And how to solve them Are absolutely absent You know, we have entitlements We have, you know, accepting these identities We have obviously this mental health crisis And all of it really goes back When you look at the pandering That is happening in public schools For eight hours in a day There's no way that you could come out of That process Not being jacked up You're going to get some of it It's going to leak into your brain No matter how much your parents talk to you Or no matter how much you Have your own ideas about life There's a certain amount That people just absorb from their atmosphere And accept There's a certain amount of it That people just accept And it's so manipulative when A third grade teacher is assigning you A project of, okay, you are a Palestinian freedom fighter Here in the United States What are some ways that you can help The Palestinians in Gaza be free Like that is your assignment Give me five examples Or even better you'll get five points extra curricular For extra curricular activities Where you went and did something To help at a Palestinian protest Or pro -Palestinian And it's just like You've effectively radicalized a kid into a freedom fighter With one assignment Like they have no choice but to participate If they want to receive good grade That was on the news yesterday That exact situation was happening And it's detestable It's so bizarre It's so bizarre that people don't see Where this goes They don't see the end of it And it's not to say that The plight of the innocent Palestinians Is not a fucking terrible situation to be in If you're stuck in Gaza Under the rule of Hamas And then you have Israel just like It keeps everybody detained in this one area It's not good for them either There are 2 .4 million people in the size of In an area the site of Washington, D .C And I like to use the word stuck Because they are We have 240 hostages that are in Gaza Like legitimate, Israeli, American, Brazilian From almost every single nation There's hostages in Gaza currently from October 7th But the 2 .4 million people, the Palestinians, that live in Gaza They are being held hostage By 30 to 40 ,000 radical Hamas And about seven other Radical organizations that are terrorist organizations So your word stuck could not be more accurate There are great, peaceful, wonderful Muslims in Gaza That voted in a terrorist organization When the PLO and Hamas were trying to figure out Who is actually going to be the ruling party Of the Palestinian people Hamas one out And now they are The size of a cartel Being funded 70 million dollars a year from Iran Is being pumped into Hamas And all they're doing is taking every little bit of humanitarian aid In converting it into military resources And those poor people, those poor Palestinians, are trapped in between all of this It's wild It's such a complex problem that Is is solvable But it's heartbreaking when you look at the individual level Of the kids that are there and the women that are there And the civilians that are there are literally trapped As you said, stuck And if you're Israel, how do you fix it?

25:10If you're Palestinian, how do you fix it? When it's so evident that Hamas wants one thing Which is the elimination and genocide of all Jews And are there any Muslim countries That are accepting Palestinian refugees No, they never have That seems insane Because there's all this support for the Palestinians If you're Islamic, if you're a Muslim And you want to support these Muslims Wouldn't you support the idea that your country This Muslim country would accept those people And they could be in a place where they could be free Now 22 Arab nations over 40 Muslim nations Internationally, right? There's one Jew nation And that one Jew nation Israel Has done more for the Palestinian people than any other nation ever So it's ludicrous and it's insulting To the Palestinian people to start throwing stones at Israel When in fact they're the only group that has been trying to protect And in any administrative way Provide food, water, and resources to the people that are there Over 40 Muslim countries Not one of them is accepting any Palestinian refugees What is the answer to that?

26:20Like why? There are problems That is with the radicals that are embedded inside of them How do you differentiate between Who is a peaceful Muslim Palestinian To who is a radical that is working for Hamas Like how do you do that? Right So as I'm getting evacuation requests two weeks ago And we're trying to be good, proper, judicious servants How do I know that this name of this person is not trying to fill out an evacuation form To be assisted to move from an area that they're currently denied in Where their area is, their area of movement is restricted For any other reasons besides that they need help Like it's a really hard Multiple levels of truth to try to Peel back to figure out who some of these people are and what their intentions are And it's been that way for a really long time If you go all the way back to like 1987 When Hamas really started moving and fighting with the PLO For control of the area You know, yes, our area of fat Was meeting with Clinton and the Prime Minister of Israel And they're making negotiations in Oslo And all the way up to, you know, the first in Tafada To the second in Tafada To then I'll suicide attacks Pizzeria is blowing up Like how do you determine who is good and who's bad?

27:45Do they have a suicide vest Do they not? Or like what are their intentions? It's wildly hard You have been involved just in the last few years In two of the most heartbreaking scenes That we've seen depicted in the media The botched withdrawal from Afghanistan You leave that and now you just got back from Israel This episode is brought to you by Buffalo Trace Distillery Actually have some Buffalo Trace cigars here They just sent me One of the world's most award winning distilleries That's been making whiskey the same way for more than 200 years Made as a tribute to the rugged free spirited pioneers Who blaze their own trail to new frontiers It embodies the perfectly untamed spirit of independence It defines what an award winning bourbon should be Age nearly twice as long as competitors In new charred white oak barrels And bottled at 90 proof Buffalo Trace is the perfect bourbon To be enjoyed in any way Anywhere and the taste It's damn good It's bold and sophisticated Yet incredibly smooth Finishing long and deep It's authentically American Representing uncompromising quality for the rugged The powerful and the passionate Tap the banner to learn more Or visit buffalotracedistillery .com That's buffalotracedistillery .com Distilled, aged, and bottled by buffalo trace distillery 90 proof, Franklin County, Kentucky, Buffalo Trace American, family -owned, independent, and perfectly untamed I mean, I'm over what's happened in the past three years There's actually four consecutive So the day I got back from Afghanistan Because I went from Afghanistan to Albanian, Brazil, and Italy and Greece To try to have them take refugees So my post -Afghanistan Work lasted a few more weeks Because there were a lot of Afghan refugees And non -American citizens that weren't even Afghanis That we had to figure out where we're going to put So that carried off, you know, the attack happened September 26 Where August 26, where the bomb at Abbey Gate went off And the American service members were killed And, you know, we left a few days later Two weeks later, we're now in the mid -September I come back and I immediately the day I land I get assigned to go down to the Mexican border And I spent six months on the Mexican border On Operation Loan Star Part of a special operation Task Force, combating cartels, traffickers, human traffickers, drugs mugglers So there was humanitarian crisis number two in my life in three years Which was the Mexican border Though some of the worst stuff I've ever seen in my life On par with Afghanistan On par with what was the next one Which was Ukraine The day I got off orders where I was legally allowed to travel Or I was not So when you're on orders you have to do what the army says And the army said this is what you're going to do So for six months I was on this assignment at the border The day I got off those orders I'm back to a civilian Tim Kennedy So then I traveled to Ukraine I worked Ukraine for a few months During that conflict and post invasion Which was again horrible Like some of the worst stuff I've ever seen Come back and I get this like momentary lol Whereas like I think like Israel This is going to be okay And then this happens You know, then October 7th happens And it was just In three years for this level of Horror to happen is it's indescribable It seems like it's ramping up It is So you're saying that the experience that you had at the border was as bad as anything?

31:45Oh yeah Yeah, so I mean this is I'm not going to You're not going to give me, I'm just going to sit here So we're Afghanistan, right? Babies are stuck in Constantine wire Taliban is executing civilians in the street To try to prompt Americans to do a response To try and elicit some escalation Right They're really just flexing to show that they were in charge So that's Afghanistan on the ground Burnt babies, you know as I'm going out to try and find Americans or our allies that are out in the city of Kabul To bring them into Hikaya And you're stepping over like small burnt babies Like it's the worst thing ever Fast forward three weeks We're the Del Rio River And there are 400 immigrants trying to cross the river They have babies up on their shoulders And the coyotes, the traffickers Every single person that's in the river has paid The cartels to be escorted across the border Well, concurrently The cartels about to smuggle 500 meters up the river Two dudes with bundles of fentanyl on their back So I'm dealing with this gigantic humanitarian problem of a few hundred people At night trying to cross a dark, cold, flowing water With babies on their shoulders And what do the coyotes do?

33:05The moment that they start getting close to the shore They just grab the kids Down to the drink Down to the water Babies are floating, little children are screaming Why would they do this? Because I have to spend resources of my personnel To flood to try to save these immigrants From drowning in the river And I have to throw a ton of resources in people at them to try and save them So they don't die in the river At the exact same time The resources that I have to use personnel wise here They're getting guys successfully onto the shore with bags full of fentanyl As they run into the inland, into the interior And they know exactly what they're doing They're making money by moving people While they're concurrently making money smuggling drugs And throwing humanitarian crisis is at us So that they can move drugs simultaneously And that's hard for people that are trying to do good How do you choose which problem to attack?

34:02We had a service member that dived into the water to try to save a baby And he drowned Took us a week to find his body A Texas National Guardsman Dove in there to try to find a baby that had got pushed off And he drowned trying to save her Is it a matter of resources? Is there none of resources being put into Well, obviously this whole thing reeks of It's so terrible to say But it seems like this is a concentrated effort And not just from the cartel It seems like this is something that's being allowed to happen The benefits of There's lots, I mean that's a hard question Right Texas has a way different position than the federal government As to the immigration problem And their approach are almost in conflict So when you get to the real bad actors With, you know, sexual Trafficking cartel members Drug smugglers, weapons smugglers Of course you're going to see Federal assets being leveraged to attack those problem sets But the large humanitarian problem The federal government is going to have a way different approach Compared to the Texas government The Texas government is like No, this is a legal immigration We have lawful ports of entry You have to legally come into the United States Through a legal port of entry And then once you are here We will process you in accordance with What the Department of State says the immigration process is Because there's a rule and we are a country of laws So you have to follow the law Anything else is illegal The other side of that coin is the federal approach Which is anybody that makes across the border You are now here and we're going to process you Which is insanity Why do they do that?

36:04Do you think they're trying to bring in voters? Yeah Yeah It grows the government It's more entitled people That you have to pay more entitlement programs That you have to pay to support You know those people are immediately shipped into the interior I find it comical and I know people Think it's not appropriate for the Texas government They've been shipping immigrants To some of these sanctuary cities That they have said that they're sanctuary cities Until they've actually received a lot of immigrants And they're like oh my god we can't handle this number of immigrants And it's like one percent of what comes over the border every single day Here in Texas that we have to deal with all the time The Yankees Those North They have no idea what it's like to be a border state And the amount Just the tens and hundreds of thousands of people That are coming across every single day It's It is It's criminal that they're allowing it And when did it start?

37:04When did it ramp up like this? This was never a year ago Three years ago Oh Jesus Christ Yeah, I mean Trump put some pretty powerful laws in place And empowered the federal immigration laws For us at the border to have lots of tools To one turn somebody away If you're coming across and you're claiming asylum Will you have to go back to your country of origin Or you have to go to the country that you're trying to cross from And that is where you're going to have your asylum Process be determined You're not going to come in And we're not going to like allow you to go to San Diego And get to hang out in San Diego until your court date Which is currently happening right now Right you make it across Where you going?

37:50I'm going to San Diego All right show up for your immigration court date And you know a year and a half from now And everybody knows this so that people are just coming across Just flooding It's so wild to watch those videos of just enormous miles long lines of people Military age men You know that it's so heartbreaking And the men and women you know border patrol And department of public safety The tax attachional guardsman that they're that are working the border They're so incredible Selfless, hard working, like love America And also love people You know they're putting their lives on the line every single day to try to protect these immigrants But also try to protect the law And the rule of law And that's a really hard thing to reconcile Is what is the humane thing to do?

38:46And is that an alignment with what is the just thing to do? That's hard They're amazing And then once people are here and they cross over There's not a real screening process in terms of like Who's a criminal, what your history is in your country of origin Yeah you want to get a weird google thing Google how many known people on the terror watch list have made it across And it'll scare the crap out of you So department of Homeland Security And the FBI You know we have these gigantic lists of people that are on terror watch list, criminal watch lists And the number of those that we have captured at the border Obviously is just going to be a drop in a bucket of those that have made it across And you know It is In light of what just happened in Israel Where you know they flew paragliders over borders over walls And they crash through walls And then they're able to kill 1 ,400 people in one day And then you look at the number and that was that was a thousand insurgents total And then you look at the number of people that have been coming over the border for the past three years That we know or radicalized That we know are on watch lists It is It is It should scare the pants Like to scare the scary to death The position that we're at We're going to have a real bad year God damn it Yeah Department of Homeland Security and the FBI yesterday They talked about a bunch of known terrorist cells that are currently Not operating, they are operating But they are looking for opportunities, targets of opportunity to conduct terrorist activities here in the United States Department of State just released an entire world wide warning to all Americans traveling abroad Saying that It is dangerous for any American to be traveling anywhere in the world right now with the amount of Terrorists Cells that have now been activated Yeah Fuck Yeah, so if you're in the steps program, I think it's a Department of State, STEP smart traveler something program That you get notifications If you travel abroad you should enroll in the steps program But what it happens is Today you would have gotten an email saying if you're going to be traveling to every single country That you would enroll in steps that you're going to be overseas in You would have gotten an email from them Warning you not to go there because it's dangerous So if you're enrolled in like five different countries for steps you would have got five Emails today being like hey bro Don't go there Yeah, there we go

41:56Yeah,

42:05this crisis intake form and the flights out of bingurian that that is So save our allies the NGO that I was in Afghanistan for the NGO that I was in Ukraine for And the NGO that I was just recently in Israel for Department of State You know they're an easy target to throw darts at sometimes But they really do do great for the American people But there's always these gaps that like so flat of You're an American in Israel right you're 75 year old pastor that wants to go and walk where Jesus walked You know, Israel is just such a beautiful place where You know, there's two and a half million or two and a half billion Christians in the world There's 1 .9 billion Muslims in the world There there's almost 20 million Jews in this world And guess where they're one place that they think to be the holies of holies are That's right in Israel Right like it is it is the place for the largest religions in the world to all celebrate So You're a pastor and you want to go to the Jordan river because that's where Jesus was the baptized by John the Baptist You are a Muslim and you want to go to the dome You want to the dome on the rock you want to go to the mosque That they're calling their reason for attacking Israel was because they thought it was going to be destroyed Which it never will be it's protected by Israel Whatever your motivation was you get there you're an American and then this attack happens American cancels your flight united cancels your flight Every single airline cancels your flight and the only airline left is the Israeli airline You're wherever you are in Israel maybe you're on the Jordan River or maybe you're up north in the hypha Maybe you're like way down south in a lot because you wanted to see the border of Egypt And this you know you're the Gulf of Aqaba it's like the most beautiful water that connects To the red sea and You're an American tourist you don't have the the the wherewithal of knowing how to travel and in a the middle of a war And now you're getting a thing from department of state that says you have to go to Tel Aviv and connect with us And fell at this crisis intake form for us to be able to help you get out From where you are as an American citizen to where you need to be to get out of this country where 1400 people Are being raped murdered burnt alive tortured there's people being kidnapped and hostages being taken And like you're just an American that's now stuck here and every single airline has canceled your flight No matter how many times you've booked it maybe you've we had this guy had booked five new flights And every single one of those flights had been charged on his credit card And so then his credit card is frozen because he's just booked five next day flights at you know three four thousand dollars a piece And you know he's on heart medication maybe he's on insulin whatever the individual and we helped almost 400 people get out of Israel But the department of state as amazing as there are there's these little gaps that somebody has to go and help them with That's comfortable moving in the middle of a war and that's really where several allies comes in is because we go and fill that gap Like how do I find this guy in this hotel that is too scared to leave doesn't know how to get a bus doesn't know how to get a taxi doesn't know how to his tourist information or his tourist guide is like hey bro I'm out I'm gonna go down because my co -boots just got murdered I'm gonna go help my family that you know they're missing three of their family members Of course they're gonna go and help but now that guy is stuck that his family stuck that pastor stuck So we had to go and find those people and move them to a place where they could get out of the country safely and it was freaking hard The volume of that is like wild Cheers We took this rad two pastors they're from California And we had a similar situation they'd booked multiple flights They had an old pastor with them you know they didn't have the maneuverability of being able to pivot with whatever existing flights Ultimately we had to drive them from where they were to Haifa to put them on a private chartered airplane to fly them from Haifa to Cyprus Where they could then fly from there to Athens and get home like we had a privately sourced an airplane to fly them out of a place To get them to a place that they could fly out of because all other aircraft have been grounded So that two pastors could make it back to their churches in California you know they're literally stuck So yeah, crazy How do you fucking manage your mind dealing with so many horrific and traumatic experiences over and over and over again just over a few years So my dad just asked me but he asked me like way more pointed he's like are you okay?

47:08Are you okay soon? Yeah, I'll be asking that too if I was your dad Do you remember Mr. Rogers? Yes, yes sure He was asked a real similar question and it was during the civil rights protests where blacks are being beaten in the street And hippies are being condemned as like the next plague and pestilence that society could ever see And like what would you do with all of this evil happening around us? And Mr. Rogers says just look to the helpers There's always people trying to help And you know I'm thinking about the ground team that I had with me over there I can't even say their names because they're they're amazing people but we had JP, RT, Primo, and the most brilliant from the expeditionary special operations backgrounds But the most selfless, hardworking, they're giants of humans Like I look at them just in awe of how capable they are and how selfless they are at the same time Like these are the most lethal humans on the planet and they could kill you a thousand different ways But they're putting their lives on the line to try to rescue a pastor that can't book a flight You know like Israel would do anything to have one of these guys go with them and advise them About how to get into this shit show that is Gaza into the tunnels that are controlled by Hamas And what are we going to do with his blood the northern border?

48:41How are we going to stop Taliban that just got permission to cross through Iraq? What are we going to do with al -Qaeda that just bribed a whole bunch more people to fly them into every single neighboring country Like but instead they're just trying to rescue people So to ask you a question when I'm down the border I just looked to my left or my right and I see a freaking private That's three o 'clock in the morning he's sitting there with night vision and he's like that kid just fell in the water Motherfucker's off he's off he's running down into the darkness to jump in the water to try and save a kid Like if you cannot find inspiration from that and if you cannot find something that's going to nurture and feed your soul And inspire you to do something good for the people around you and look at the guys that I had with me in Israel Like I can't even the group of people that I had with me in Ukraine like I'm just astounded by these And you know you know a whole bunch of them too that are just amazing people I've been so blessed to have you know a short but successful finding career a successful military career That then went into a period of like successful business and now I'm in a position where like Man I really want to do good and there's all these things that I know are people are really hurting in or they can't do And I have experienced in a background and connections that I'm able to solve these problems I did so much evil and I dealt so much death if I didn't try to do good now like I think I would really have a problem But I'm good because I'm doing good There's something about that doing good for other people like when you're hurting I don't think there's anything more important that you could do than do something for somebody else And that man that just empowers you and it gives you purpose And if I'm ever going to think about should I get up and work out today Well I can think about August 24th 2021 when I had two kids in my arms and a woman behind me And we're having to run through Kabul to try to make it to Ichkaya while we're being chased by the Taliban Cool I want to be in good shape bro you know

50:53Find people doing good you know as Mr. Roger said look to the people that are helping And man I'm good Just keep your eyes on the good That's amazing that you're able to manage your mind through all this Because I know a lot of lesser men would be destroyed by one of these experiences And for you to have four of them concurrent over three years That is a lot It's a lot to handle I would really like maybe in the next election cycle us to look at the past three years And maybe I'm not ready for another four years of this you know I don't think our organization could take it I think the role of decks of people that want to do good

51:40I can only ask somebody to go into a war and torn country to try to save America in so many times Well unfortunately we've also demonized first responders and people that are in the military And demonized people that are police officers and border officers And it's this short -sighted ridiculous approach for political purposes It's just so fucking infuriating and it's so weird that more people don't understand that And more people don't see it that way The propaganda machine is a powerful thing right now And I don't know how to fight it They have successfully demonized law enforcement Border patrol They take a photo of a guy riding on a horse And a horse is the best thing you can possibly have on the border If you've been to the Mexican border It is like it's magic Do you hunt off horsebacker?

52:32No It's the best Even like Southwest Texas If you're going elk hunting or like you're going to go bear hunting You're going to go cat hunting And you think you're going to get up through in and around big bend on anything but a horse You're crazy Like you better be on a horse And you know there's one photo of a guy with his reins in his hand You know they're like this border patrol guy is whipping That's not what's happening He was using his horse to block people To prevent them from putting their lives in danger by getting into this flowing river And that's what he was doing And if they make it into the interior, like it's the number of people that die from exposure Once they make it across into the United States But then they try to cross Like let's say they came through big bend Do you know how big that place is?

53:21It's fucking crazy huge We're hunting in and around there And I'll come across a couple of immigrants And they are... One, we find dead bodies all the time on ranches of immigrants that just die from exposures He's a friend of mine when he has a ranch in South Texas All the time Yeah And these men and women on the border are trying to protect them Similarly in the propaganda vein This pro -Hamas I just... We were texting before he came on here like how fast things pivot The rational understanding of a problem And how perverted it is from truth Don't know how to fight this This is a unique problem It's very unique and it's very strange It's very strange to see massive protests on the streets They're yelling out in support of the people that did that on October 7th And there was a professor recently that said he was elated when that happened And he was just suspended which is crazy That it's only that But the fact that there's people that are so fucking detached from reality And they have this very strange leftist Marxist philosophy That is so untenable with the reality of the world And yet they're teaching kids this And then they're talking about this openly Openly in public forums, openly in social media, openly in protests It's fucking strange It's so strange that people understand It's so dangerous And for young people that admire those people Or that are being taught by those people And don't know any better when that person is in a position of power and influence Because they're discussing these things in classrooms or discussing these things on social media I just don't understand it I'm so confused, I never thought things would deteriorate this rapidly I'm disappointed but I'm not confused When you know the powers and the money that is being spent to try to destabilize America When you look at our enemies, when you're looking at China, when you're looking at Russia, when you're looking at Iran And the hundreds of millions of dollars they're spending and misinformation and disinformation Where they are perpetuating things that we 100 % know to be not true, not factual But they are very effectively I mean it's unnerving Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for Hitler He had a playbook about how to spend truth and how to manipulate masses How could you take what is a great cool culture like the Germans were post -war war one As they're trying to find their identity and they're trying to bounce back from a horrific war And then by the mid -30s and late -30s they're positioning to throw Jews into ghettos and then ultimately gas six million of them How can that happen so fast?

56:36And you very quickly realized that it was an effective propaganda misinformation campaign Where they were able to dehumanize and segregate certain aspects or ideas And then attach a name to those things and a face to those things and a people to those things You know we saw it here during COVID, the unvaccinated And it happened fast, it happened in months And the same way that police were demonized during the defund law enforcement and BLM movement Now we know to be a complete hoax, a bunch of liars that manipulated truth and data and what really happened And are there injustices? Absolutely, are we a perfect nation?

57:17Totally not, is law enforcement perfect? No, for sure But by and large the vast majority do want to do good Like it says protect and serve and that's what they raise their hand to do But they're just, they're being destroyed by this misinformation campaign And Russia and China want it You know they want us to be fighting each other They want pro -Palestinian protests They want pro -Homass protests They want from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free That is a call for genocide They are calling for, so the river, the Jordan River, which is on the east side of all of Israel The sea, the Mediterranean In between those two things is where Israel lies, 7 .4 million Jews They want that to not exist, they want no Jews to be there So every time that you hear from the river to the sea It is a call for genocide or an expulsion of all Jews out of Israel And that is the call of Hamas And guess who's paying for that thing to be seen on Cornell and in Harvard And in every, that's right, the Russia and China They're being manipulated by a bunch of our enemies As they're trying to destabilize us in a region and hear in the United States And it's a vulnerability of our, that we have because of our freedom Yeah Yeah but Man, I love freedom I love it I do, that's why I'm here Yeah, that's why I moved here I love The way that freedom would work was that there was an educated empowered citizen That was individually responsible for themselves and their family And they were in a position of authority over the government That's how that document worked, our beautiful Bill of Rights in the Constitution It was because of the power of the people And over the past 50, 60 years our people have become fat, gelatinous, complacent, uneducated Subscribe to propaganda, radicals, aligned with agendas that are not pro -America And in the course of this time, it makes that document have no teeth Right, there's nothing behind it because the government used to be scared of the people Because the people when, you know, we decided to throw some tea in a harbor And the shot heard around the world We went the people that we went after the people that were attacking us And that were controlling us And we killed them and we pushed them off this land And then we wrote these founding documents that said the individual is going to maintain the power The people are going to have the power But the only way that works is if the people have power And we have let that go Bit by bit, diet by diet, day by day Black of exercising of our God -given rights We are now just soft It's one of the reasons when I was kicking around with you Like, am I going to, do we really want to talk about this?

1:00:19This is tough, like I have 25 pages of notes here about the Middle East conflict But ultimately, I'm scared that that can happen here Because we are so vulnerable right now as people And it's the reason that sheepdog response exists, my company, is to train the American individual to take their own security To preserve and protect human life and be able to provide for the family That's the mission statement But right now I don't know what percentage Americans are capable of doing that It's a very small number Very small Yeah, frighteningly small And that is being discussed as if somehow or another that small number is a strength That we are in somehow or another a more kind and a more equitable nation Because people are so soft Because people are so I don't know how you have those two...

1:01:18How do you have such freedom that allows people to have these protests, that allows people to have these different perspectives And to speak about it openly and publicly But yet still maintain the strength of the union When you have all these external factors, all these different countries and different organizations that are working to try to use propaganda and use money to destroy us Because that's really what's happening And that's like that used to be like if you said there's people out there that are trying to destroy America Oh, you're some crazy right wing, fucking all right But God damn it, how much information do you have to see?

1:01:58How much truth do you have to see that you cannot deny? That's Russian interference into the election Bold face lie, you know they were in interfering They're perpetuating that they were interfering but they weren't interfering Like that Trump was being influenced by... Whether he was a Russian agent Well guess who was pushing that story? The Russians and China Because it destabilized our election process So your question is how do you reconcile having such freedoms Where somebody can go and say something so detestable Like praising a group of people that went and raped and murdered 1 ,400 people That currently have 240 hostages Like that's what Hamas has You know there's 30 ,000 Hamas operatives within Gaza They have a ton of host...

1:02:45Like how can somebody have so much freedom to say that? Well it's if the people are prepared to be able to protect and preserve and provide Then if you're in a position of authority, sovereignty It's a next step past freedom Sovereignty is what I want for me, it's what I want for every American It's that they are in control of themselves An external force comes and says, Tim, I want you to take this experimental thing And give it to your child and inject it into them please I say no No, I don't need whatever it is you're about to withhold from me Because I don't do this thing, I don't need because I can do it myself That's sovereignty, right?

1:03:24I don't need you to come and try and protect my family Because I can protect my family Come and try best with them because my family is unattainable to anybody else They're completely protected Education, the reason I started these schools is because I do not want anyone else to have influence Over the way that my children are going to learn how to be critical thinkers I want them to be educated, I want to be powerful, I want them to be cognitive And every single debatable subject to have this acratic mind Where they can sit and debate somebody like you with immense knowledge on all these variety of topics But then man, they're fierce That's sovereignty We have for so long just given away every little bit of it Whether it was post 9 -11 or during COVID or after the next active shooter You know, like in light of what just happened in Maine You know they're going to be coming after They're going to be looking for more laws to try and control more of the second minimum And limit the freedoms that we have So we know that, but we have to maintain this essence that is being American Which is the sovereignty, the individual responsibility that I am in charge of me And what's infuriating to me about these mass shootings And Matt Walls did a piece about this recently Where he discussed the prevalence of psychoactive drugs The prevalence of psychiatric medications Among school shooters, amongst mass shooters That it is fucking off the charts And they try to hide that They try to hide that data by using gang violence as mass shootings And they use like there's no data to support that all that is like no no no That's not true at all There's a giant difference between gang violence mass shootings Which occur all the time Which are also is something that no one's trying to fix And then the actual people that strap themselves up And go into places where people are unarmed and just slaughter people Almost all of them are on something They're almost all of them, they're on SSRIs Almost all of them are on some sort of anti -exiting medication Almost all of them are on something And that we don't address that It's not even talked about that it's like fucking Voldemort Not talked about Voldemort, yeah You're not supposed to say the name I mean it's like it's very strange that this is never discussed on television You said you can't research it When you say it's buried that data If you were like how many active shooters were on an antidepressant Anything that all of that data is buried with Well then it pops up well in Chicago in Southern California It's buried in truth So trying to find the real data of these active shooters in schools Like this guy that in Maine You know No mental health problems Yes And he actually tried to buy a suppressor And failed trying to buy the suppressor because he self -elected He told them that he just recently got out of a mental institution So like kudos to them I'm part of this This group called Double Check That's trying to figure out ways to identify outliers like this Where people have information They wrote their manifesto of like hey I'm gonna go murder a bunch of people You know these I'm gonna go to this black church and kill everybody A lot of times that information is available That and as I love the second amendment Every single person should be able to have a tank in a machine gun in my opinion But when somebody is dealing with mental health problems They are on a bunch of drugs They are actively trying to hurt people You know like maybe there's a restraining order There are multi -time felons Should that guy be able to go in and buy?

1:07:01Well clearly that guy right there Was stopped from getting a tool to maybe even hurt more people By just and as a small business owner It is my choice who I'm gonna sell to And who I'm gonna choose to sell a product to And if that product is a thing like ultimate The individual responsibility as an entrepreneur and a small business owner Is like it is my choice who I who sell this to And that guy comes in and he says that he's on drugs And he just got a mental health hospital like Man you can go buy your suppressor somewhere else Like that guy in Maine just went through it So a double check is trying to infuse themselves in a really helpful way To protect people like me that own a gun store Where if that guy walks into my door I can have real data to point to him So like I do a little search It pops up as like hey man You just wrote that you want to go shoot up a school Can we talk about that before I sell you a gun?

1:08:02You know You said that you hate black people And that you think that they all should die Or like that guy in Harvard Square yesterday That was walking around saying that every Jew should have their next slit There should be no Jew businesses This is like in Harvard Square Like if that guy walked into my gun store I'm gonna go to a double check and be like Man so you said some pretty outrageous things yesterday I think you need help Let's go for a run And let's go get you some real help And what help do they even get? I mean and also like how much help do they get And getting off of that shit And is there a way to get off of that shit?

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1:08:43I mean if you are legitimately mentally ill And you're on a host of psychiatric medications Like what motivation do they have to even take you off of that shit? I'm not a doctor Oh they don't have motivation No Because they don't make money when you're not taking drugs It's fucking terrifying You also know the answer to this So in all of the things I've experienced in the past three years Post -traumatic stress Any single one of those single days Over the course of months upon months Would be enough for me to be like Dude I'm out of here Right? Instead Definitely not on any drugs Exercise every single day Cold plunge Hang out with my friends Do grappling Contribute in a meaningful way back to society I have amazing relationship with my beautiful wife I have incredible children that I'm so proud of I'm now like playing hockey with my son As a 45 year old dude That just went to a yard cell to buy all the hockey stuff So I can get out there and try to dunk on my eight year old Who skates around me Looking like an idiot I also got all my lacrosse stuff I got tap shoes So I can start doing tap dancing with my four year old You know like these are the things that healthy people do Sitting on the couch eating a bunch of shit Not going outside Not having any relationships Not having any community Not finding ways to get back to their community Of course you're broken So how do you get off the drugs?

1:10:07You start doing little tiny little bits One percent improvement every single day And ultimately like The sun is brighter Your wife is more beautiful Your kids are just a little bit more rad You know and you're able to go do more good For more people But people don't have this guidance And that's what's crazy That this truth that you're speaking Is not common This is not something that people discuss And if you talk to a doctor This is not something they recommend What they're trying to do Is let's find the right medication for you Tim Yeah Let's all do your stuff I just got chastised by my doctor You know, 45 So I was going to go with the Is my gut and stuff healthy thing that you do at this age And they're like We haven't seen you in seven years I haven't been sick in seven years Last time I was here I partially tore my toe off And I needed you to Put my toe back on So what do I need you for?

1:11:11And you need us now Because you have to have a letter For you to be able to go get this procedure And I was like Well I just don't want to get gut and like But whole cancer So I'd really like to go do these things You know, but I have to come in and see you For you to like write a thing For me to go see these other people And okay, I got it I got it Stupid Well, you know, they think they're doing the right thing Because this is what their mandate is And this is what their You know, their normal regimen is When they discuss things with people Like you should be seeing us all the time Tim No No Yeah, I don't get it If you're healthy, what's But be healthy And be healthy, be actually healthy Like work at it Yeah That discipline It seems so sad And I pity the easy solution person Or like I can take a pill and I'll feel better Or I can take a pill and I'll be less fat Or like I'll be sold on this idea That this media company is telling me That if I do this thing I'm gonna sleep better Or like my dick's gonna work better With this thing I'll be happier Yeah, like the other The truth is that I mean, you gotta work Yes, you gotta work You gotta get up early Yeah You have to have callous hands You know, like Man, I love my wife And I love being able to Have an amazing relationship with her And that would not be possible if I didn't work at it You know, I like being a freak physical thing In my middle forties That would not be possible if I didn't work at it Right I like being a successful business person That would not be possible And I mean like work Not like, oh man, I Shot a selfie and like Punched it for the day, you know Like Actual work Yeah, get up earlier than me Most people don't even have a frame of reference There's so many people out there that don't know anybody who actually works Like works at it The way you do Or the way many people do that we know To fly back from Israel Every one of those people In the cabots is all around Gaza And we're up and down them Like they're No fat on their faces You know, like Strations on their shoulders Like these are just cops Or now reserve recently activated people I'm going in Tel Aviv I'm not joking the entire time I was there I saw two fat people The whole entire time And I was like I had to I was compelled I was like Hey, are you guys And they turn around And they're both American Of course Both instances of like the only fat people And then I take a flight From Tel Aviv directly into New York I land in New York And I'm heading towards immigration And passport control And I'm just like Inundated with the like Overweight Dangerously obese Americans And I went The stark contrast of a place That has been trying to fight for their existence Since May of 1948 When every single neighboring country Invaded them and tried to kill them To like the Six Day War To then Yon Kampur War And then the First Intifada To the Second Intifada And now what just happened on October 7th Where they're just like Under the stress of being capable And individually responsible for their safety Clearly they failed October 7th To then coming into New York And I was like Bro!

1:14:39We are a mess We are a mess Yeah, we're a mess And our supermarkets are filled with poison It's wild It's like there's something like 40 % of the American diet Is processed foods Yeah It's insane It's insane Everything from every angle Is weakening us Everything I want everybody to get chickens I have chickens Of course you do Chickens are a gateway to freedom They're a great way to free food Yeah That they are They let them roam around They make eggs They just eat bugs They only scratch on the ground I always tell people that are vegans too Get chickens It's literally karma -free food You don't want to eat eggs Because you don't believe in factory farming Fantastic Do you have enough room to have chickens?

1:15:21Well then you'll get real protein Animal protein That's karma -free They lay those eggs every day That's never going to become a chick And they're so happy To be living with you My four -year -old walks around with two chickens You don't have the day And she's sitting there in her four -wheeler And there's a chicken sitting next to her The happiest My cats cruising around My cats love the chickens too Because if you have chickens There's a good chance you're going to have mice And if you have mice Then you're going to have a really happy cat And I belge her malwa And she comes in And she just sits there She's the king of the roost And then one of the chickens comes over And reminds her that she's nothing That the chickens are actually in charge of the yard But the amount of eggs that they come But you know when you get That first time that you crack an egg From one of your chickens And you're like That looks different And then you eat it And you're like Do that taste different?

1:16:13A lot different Like way different It's like that dark, deep orange Like not yellow, not pale, like orange And it's like you can taste the nutrient Micronutrient riches of it And then you're like Well if that is that different How much different is All the other things that I eat Right And you start going down this wild journey This rabbit trail of freedom And how much different am I? Yeah You know when you look at the difference between Grainfead, fatty beef And an elk steak You're like Okay Look at the difference in the meat Look at the difference in the quality of the meat The dark, rich, nutrient, dense, protein, rich meat Like what's the difference?

1:16:59Well they're not eating any bullshit They're eating, eating literally what they've eaten For hundreds of thousands of years And they have to work every day To find more of it The unhealthy bits And this is a cruel thing about nature Is the unhealthy animal dies Yes And the existing animals are The ones that we ultimately get to go and find And we are very careful about which ones we're killing And what season we're killing them in To make sure that we're encouraging the same healthy herd We get this most delicious Surviving, fantastic, nutrient -dense meat You can find on the planet Yeah And we have this provider We launched a Learn to hunt school We teach you how to land navigate We teach you the fundamentals of marksmanship We teach you all basic Good Laws around hunting How to put in out of state for a lottery For - Is this part of your school system?

1:18:04We teach it out of school But at Sheepdog Response Okay It's called the provider course at Sheepdog Response We also teach it to the kids So like the mentorship program at Apigee Those guys get to come to provider courses They learn how to skin an animal They learn how to follow a blood trail They learn how to feel dressing animal They learn the final culminating exercise You'll love this So after two days of just like inundated information Like here's the healthy and natural way to kill an animal This is shot placement This is you know you have to know how to shoot first So we teach fundamentals of marksmanship Nonstandard shooting positions Like how many times you get to lay down in the prone off bipods And shoot something Not often in hunting Like can I shoot off poles?

1:18:50Can I shoot off a tree Kneeling standing off hand If I get a designated zone Like in Arizona or New Mexico Can I navigate from where I can park To where I have to go hunt Without legally trespassing on anybody's property Like some - The barrier between I want to hunt And I can hunt is hard for some people Yes And as we're sitting here talking about like How amazing it is to hunt And it is the most amazing thing That I want everybody to do That barrier of entry seems hard for some people It's very steep But it shouldn't be Right And that's the idea Like I want this for everybody And the final day We give you your lot We give you your animal You have to navigate to that place You then have to P -I -D Like positively identify the animal that you're supposed to shoot And then you go to take a shot off of it Once you take a shot Once you take your shot off of it We photograph how you're going to take that shot Standing, kneeling, sticks We measure the distance We lay as you're at 210 meters And then we go duplicate that On an actual shooting range On the same target And it's so fun to see Like the full buck fever Of somebody freaking out When they don't have a round on the chamber They're just looking at a 3D target Out at Revley Peak Ranch in Burnett It is such a joy to introduce Every class we have 40 people And every class is sold out And the end result at the end of three days Are like these people that are just like They feel like they're going to explode with this excitement About what it means Because they now know that they can go and hunt Do you have a mind management program To deal with the moment of actually shooting?

1:20:40Yeah Yeah You're familiar with Joel Turner's work The Shot IQ system Yeah Yeah Fantastic Yeah, for sure Changed everything for me And so many other people Including like world -class archers And people that have been hunting for decades That have dealt with target panic And don't understand what's actually going on between Open loop and closed loop systems And that you can actually manage that with discipline And actually having a shot routine That you must go through every time you execute a shot Changes everything I mean, hold on a second, Joel Are you telling me that discipline, process, and repetition Solve a problem Yeah Oh my god I think so Mind blown I mean, that's for me It does for everybody Yeah What is the military's approach to literally every single thing That Like what is your approach to not being fat?

1:21:29It's that Right What is your approach to like trying to build a real critical thinker That is going to move into society As a contributing member of society, it is that And also understanding the factors that are in play Instead of just being like a prisoner of the moment And being captive by your emotions And you know, these human systems that have existed forever Like having an understanding of what's going on Like why am I freaking out? What is there anything that I can do? How do I learn how to control my breathing? How do I learn how to mitigate stress? How do I learn how to manage my mind In these critical moments?

1:22:02Yeah, it's um Hunting is one of the very few things that Still sparks that feeling of like Elation and excitement and nervousness But I still fall back to Cool, I've disciplined, I've done the work I have a process that I'm now executing And I've put in the work for me to be able to be successful here And then it's like success And that same discipline, process, hard work approach To people externally will look at Savor allies in the middle of peak combat In a completely non -permissive environment And they're like, what the hell are you pe - What are you guys doing? And it's an incredible group of disciplined people That have a process that has been perfected over Now 20 years at the Global War on Terror And they are doing the work That uh, that needs to be done But those three things are still prevalent and evident In everything And everything difficult in all of life Yeah Yeah And it's uh, how do you Get someone to subscribe to that?

1:23:22I think they have to hear about it first And that's one of the reasons why I think conversations like this are so important It's because in everyday life If you're working in an office, if you're dealing with regular people You're not going to encounter this You're not going to encounter these conversations And there's going to be moments that people have where they do panic and freak out And don't understand why How come I can't keep my shit together when I'm nervous? How come I can't keep my shit together in these critical moments That require me to stay calm and make good choices What is wrong with me?

1:23:53What is, am I just a bitch? Like what is it? No, you just have an undisciplined mind You have an untrained mind You haven't got the reps in You haven't got the reps in Everyone needs the reps Yeah Yeah It's um, as worried as I am about the future, you know, at Apigee And at Sheep Toe Response And at Saver Allies And you know, the first responders action group I mean, all of these different groups Where I see these young men and women that are on this train And I know I'm not in a cross section of the United States right now That is really struggling with all of the problems of mental health and obesity and diet But in this little group that I'm around often I'm just so encouraged by the work and the discipline And the subscription to the process Like last night in my Jiu Jitsu school I had 60 kids on our mat at one time And I said, hey parents Everybody come into the classroom really fast We're going to have a Q &A session about competition and what this next season looks like Every parent like stood up, walked in there They had questions like they didn't even know But like they didn't know that we're going to be doing a Q &A They had pre -prepared questions that they are looking for an opportunity to ask the staff About like, okay, how is coaching going to be at the next tournament And I was like, I love you people You know, like the parents to the Apigee families Because we take a totally different approach We're a whole family approach to education Like if you subscribe to this idea That you can take your kid And you can drop them off at a place And you're going to get this amazing thing back That you don't have any control about what they're being taught You are just an idiot and you're a crazy person Like you send your people to Caesar You send your people to Rome And you don't think you're going to get a Roman back Like that's what's going to happen So our approach is there's a whole family inclusion here It is not just our responsibility to train And to educate your children It is our responsibility So you are going to work out You're going to keep a journal of your diet Here is your prescribed reading list Here are the books that your kids are going to be reading That you're also going to be reading the with them Like if your kid is reading it, then you better be reading it too You'd be very appalled at some of the books that are assigned to children in public school to read And I think if a parent actually picked this book up And it's like, then Johnny took his penis and he brought it And it was a wreck for the first time Next to his friend Like, what?

1:26:20This is for a fourth grader? Right So this whole family approach That, you know, this truly is a critic This is not new This has been around for a long time And I'm so encouraged to see the activation, the discipline, the process, and the hard work From the youngest kindergartener all the way up to like the 60 -year -old parent That's like doing the work It's so bizarre to me that a rejection of teaching like overt sexuality The young kids is somehow another dismissed as anti -gay or anti -LBGTQ It's so strange because you could never imagine heterosexual sex being discussed to five -year -olds and six -year -olds Like, this is how a man chooses to have sexual relationships with women And this is how a woman chooses to have sexual relationships with men No, that's never discussed That's wildly inappropriate But wildly inappropriate But somehow or another, it's okay if you're discussing gay sex Like, it's very strange It's not strange, it's wrong It's dangerous, it's a grooming behavior If you're trying to brooch any sexual topic with a child that is not of age to have sex That is grooming, that is the definition of grooming And grooming itself, that term is dismissed as anti -LBGTQ Which is wild I love gay people There's an idea about being a man Don't care, bro, do anything that you want You talk to my eight -year -old about anything sexual, heterohomo, anything, it's wildly inappropriate He's it Right You know?

1:28:07Why are you doing that? Yeah, there's one reason And it is not for the benefit of the indoctrination That's right Yeah, and to say that somehow or another is homophobic Which is so insane Like, how did that become reality that we're dealing with this? Because this is not the case a decade ago, two decades ago This is very recent in terms of modern society in this country It's fucking crazy, it's crazy And it also, to me, it's so confusing that other people don't recognize that And that people are so scared of being labeled as homophobic Or being labeled as transphobic or anti -LBGTQ That they allow these things to take place under the guise of we're being more inclusive It does hurt to be called, you know, a bigot To like, you know, you're racist or your anti -LBGTQ Like, I don't like those things saying it said about me and I know that they're completely wrong But they're going to lob that unfounded accusation at me because I'm going to stand on the principle of protecting my children And would I rather take, you know, there's a great photo of a dad standing over his children and on his back He has like all of these darts and the cartoon was, you know, who, the darts were named You know, it was Disney propaganda, you know, it was LGBTQ indoctrination It's racial discrimination, you know, it's a 69 project And it's like every single thing they're attacked with just relentlessly every single day And the dad's just sitting there taking it And that is our job is to take it So you can call me any names that you want But first and foremost, my position is to protect my children And to raise somebody that will be a contributing member of society My partner, Matt Boudreau at Apigee He was in public education Like that is, that was his origin That was his start, the genesis of his journey Where we collided, was he had went and started the two largest Socratic schools in the United States Like hundreds and hundreds of students going to learn just the Socratic approach And he thought that there was more that needed to be done on the full family approach Where the dad and the mom and the brothers and the sisters Everybody's on the same journey to become the best versions of their self themselves So Matt and I collided with both of us working at the exact same thing With the same ideas, with the same approaches, with the same love for America And like the end result is dads and moms Becoming those things where they will be the stopgap between all of this hate And all of these dangerous ideas And if you're not doing that, like if parenting is not hard Maybe you're not a good parent Because parenting is hard It's complicated It is and like it should, you know, my wife and I last night sat there for an hour And broke down like next school year books that were reading, you know, like for an hour On on a was a Tuesday night we're just sitting there like hammering through Like were there a lot of other things I'd rather be doing for an hour with my wife for sure But highs and lows on Sunday My son had lacrosse practice, it was cold, it was rainy And his whole entire team third graders out there Chivering and being and showing grit And I was like my heart was exploding with pride And I never said you had to stay out there I was like, you know, they practice this day We get there, the coach was in shorts and he was just his fingers were white His cheeks were like bright red from the cold But he stood there and he took it and he showed grit And then all of these third graders followed in suit And I was just like heart exploding with pride as my son demonstrated like this This will follow through with this thing that I've committed to do And it hurt me to watch my son be cold And it hurt me and this is why parenting is hard And if it doesn't and if I didn't care I don't think there's any greater insult than indifference And to be indifferent to your kid is just like The worst thing you could be as a human Yeah, it's so selfish That's a crazy way of thinking But so many people are just so occupied with their own life And they're so busy that they just don't have the time to have conversations with their kid Or even think about it Like, ah, they're going to school Is there?

1:32:45That school's job Anyone busier than you or me? Elon Okay, fair Yeah Maybe Maybe Yeah, maybe Maybe not I don't know, we're pretty busy We're pretty busy But I think it's a part of life You know, it's also very rewarding I mean, to see your kids like getting after it's very rewarding My youngest has become a real fitness freak She's a nut, she's got to fit bit now, she's 13 And she's a savage She likes to tell me like the 28 ,000 steps today She gets up at six o 'clock in the morning It hits the gym before she goes to school And then like she had She had a volleyball game Yeah, 13 She had a volleyball game She got up at six o 'clock in the morning Ran for two miles Then went to the volleyball game Did the volleyball game, you know, they're playing in this tournament They play these three games She comes back home, hits the gym again So she's getting three workouts in a day And she's showing me her results and all this thing And then, you know, we're obviously giving her positive feedback Because of it But now she's like super fired up And then she like you see the difference in her body Like her abs are showing And her body feels like Like she's like a fucking little panther Yeah, it's crazy And it's so rewarding Not to be, you know, I don't mean to disparage other families That haven't made it there yet Or haven't subscribed to these ideas of Disciplined and regimen But our kids compared to You know, my son, my daughters They're just so much better than everybody else I always sound terrible But like, they do the work I also think it's a lead by example thing Children, you can teach them things But they learn a lot from just watching you They learn a lot They learn a lot when they learn what the standards are Yeah Like when you see someone who's happy and fulfilled And also successful And you're like, what is that person doing?

1:34:43Like, well, that person's my mom What is my mom doing? Oh, my mom's a fucking animal Like, look at her Jesus, I want to be like her Like, and that's how kids learn They learn from that They learn from seeing things too They don't just learn from the things you tell them They learn from watching you Watching you live your own life And if you're a slob and you come home And just fucking eating sub sandwiches And just drinking whiskey all night And just falling asleep watching sports Because like, who is fucking aimless existence? This is stupid Like, God, life is meaningless Yeah, give them purpose Right, we're such a Society void of purpose Might Glover Great book prepared And that In that One of the big takeaways was Like, it doesn't have to be your purpose But one of the reasons Me as an American, me as a protector Me as a father, me as a husband It is my job and my responsibility To be prepared to protect my family And as your children Learn Viosmosis Like, by example, the things that you do You know I have to like, elbow my son out of a seat So I can sit facing the door Like, my man, you knew where to sit You know, but like, move over You go sit by your mom right now And you know, he sees the outliers Right And Mike would call it A bump in the pattern Like, I call them outliers Where like, something is off Where I sit down in a place And like, that person doesn't belong here Right, what's going on here?

1:36:13Yeah, I'm gonna spend a little bit of time And a little cognitive Of my, well, I ever struggling brain To pay attention with this, what person is doing over here Because it's my responsibility And Americans better figure this out pretty fast Because we are Gonna have a rough year We are Welfly and prepared And disillusioned about What the next 13 months are gonna look like Do you think that's gonna wake people up Do you think, I mean, I do not want to say That we need something to happen But one of the things that did happen Post 9 -11 I remember this overwhelming feeling of patriotism That was prevalent through the entire country I would drive to work And I'd see American flags on fucking In Los Angeles Which is like one of the most ridiculously Out of touch places on earth And everyone had American flags hanging from their car It was overwhelming There was this feeling like We are in this together And that there are forces of evil out there in the world And now we understand And now we're united I hope That we don't need that catalyst I hope so too I really do But Israel is one of the most secure nations In the world Which is impressive From them fighting In for their existence The day that they became a country To the 6 -day war Where every single one of their neighboring countries invaded them To the young Kapoor war Where again, led by Egypt Every single one of their neighboring countries invaded them To, you know, what just happened Where they have one of the most complex Security and military And intelligent networks on the planet And Hamas killed four...

1:38:04Almost Pearl Harbor level numbers Almost 9 -11 Level numbers Just In An indescribably barbaric way Like this is This isn't people dining buildings Or, you know, getting shot from airplanes This was I mean... A music festival That babies People are saying it was propaganda What happened? It was not These things really happened on the ground And anybody that denies it is... Who's saying it's propaganda? The... Every... If you go to one of these pro -Pamas protests right now Like show me a picture of a baby that got their head decapitated That didn't really happen Oh, you really 80... Because IDF said that 80 % of all of the victims in...

1:38:55Within the Kabutses Were tortured before they were murdered 80 % of all of the victims

1:39:03Um... Saw first hand Was shown And have which I will never show The pictures of these things really happening And if it could happen in the most secure nation That has been invaded by every single one of their neighbors Multiple times in history But we here in America think That the 350 million of us are somehow safe That the government is somehow going to protect us That our local police department Like if you picked up the phone right now And you called For help 9 -1 -1 How long would it take for somebody to come here and try and help and save you? Especially with the defund the police Oh yeah Well people are figuring that out in Minneapolis Well they're figuring out here Yeah, they're figuring out here too And you have a ton of friends that are in law enforcement in this area The murder detectives Counter gang task forces Are pulled off of their Murder investigations to work the street Because they don't have enough police officers You know I mentioned the recruiting crisis If we are struggling to meet the demand of basic soldiers The available population of Combat arms that special operations can pick from That shrinks right?

1:40:19And then that pool being smaller So ultimately by the time you get to the guys that really do the work on the ground There's nobody left to pick from And we're Not just strategically And maybe the most vulnerable position in a really long time But nationally Here in the United States I think that we are more vulnerable than we have ever been There's nobody coming to save you There's nobody that's gonna come That's gonna pick up the phone and be like yeah I'll be there in three minutes They're not coming It took six to eight hours For any of the Military or police to make it To any of those villages that are immediately adjacent from Gaza To come and try and fight Hamas back They had six hours To do whatever they want To all the women, the children And the Holocaust survivors that were still there Like these were people that survived Holocaust camps Concentration camps are war or two Still alive, 102 years old And they're like Hamas is like We knew that you were here We've actually been recawning and ideeing Every single one of these families that we're gonna be going after And they went after them And Americans are woefully Are ill -prepared for what's coming I think there's another thing that's disturbing to me But there's a certain amount of cowardice That's involved in There's certain people That when they see an attack like that happen And they're terrified of it happening to them They will try to sympathize with the attackers They will try to sympathize and almost position themselves to be on their side That's rampant right now Anti -Semitism Across the United States Crazy, crazy It's like people came out of the woodwork It's like they were hiding in the woods And then all of a sudden you're seeing it openly Maybe I saw one Or we should boycott Jewish businesses Here in the United States Maybe you just have them Put a star on their chest or something Or maybe put a gold star on their business Is that what you're suggesting?

1:42:26Because that is what you're suggesting Yeah, have we not learned? Evidently we haven't It took six million to be persecuted and killed Those Jews, man, from The Germans To the Egyptians, to the Romans You know, Palestine didn't exist You could go back 3000 years To King David And then his son King Solomon Saying that like this is the capital of the Jewish people Here in Judah And Israel, Jerusalem That is 1700, 1700, BC Right? We have to go to 80, 80 Where after Jesus has already come here Now we have the origin of Judaism And them historically Not religious documents Like this is the origin of the Jewish people Is here in the specific land With very clear geographic references To what it is To then being the origin of the Christian faith With Jesus being there And then being crucified And then 200 years later Muhammad And us learning that The Muslim religion also beginning there The Romans destroy the temple In 80 80 And then they coined the term Palestine for that area For the 2000 years before that And it had just been Israel Egypt The Romans They're now conquered from every A magical group of people For the next like 1500 years Murdered at every opportunity Leading up to the Holocaust Going to Post -war war two 1947 the UN says Hey, it's cool that Israel has its own nation In the place that has It has always been Israel May of 1948 Independence kicks off And every neighbor comes in to try to kill them And now here we are in 2023 And we're still talking about like Boycotting Jews And hey, it's cool if we like Slip their throats Don't let them make babies Let's find from the river to the sea Get rid of the Jews What the fuck It's wild I would have never imagined this just five Six years ago Five six months ago Right Yeah 100 ,000 people in London You know Marching Taring down posters And I've asked this time and time again You know there's posters of the kids that have been kidnapped Yeah And they put them up in New York They put them up in Brooklyn They put them in LA And there are hundreds of videos Of people walking down to tear Off these hostage photographs Young people Yeah Yeah I want to know why Like why don't you want to see a picture Of a nine year old girl That was kidnapped And is now a hostage by a terrorist group in Gaza Why don't you want to see that?

1:45:25Why are you tearing that down And I think that the answer is It goes in direct conflict With the thing that they want to believe And they think that it perpetuates a cycle of violence And that them tearing it down And that is them Like protecting the Palestinian Poor, impoverished people When in fact they're tearing down the victim The Jew that or the Christian Or the Brazilian that was kidnapped That is now being held hostage In Gaza by a terrorist group of people And thugs Why are you tearing that down? Well this is very bizarre progressive narrative That You know look there's a reality of Gaza That Gaza is essentially like an open air prison Because that is a reality Those people are fucked They're stuck there And it doesn't seem to be like a really good solution on the table You know and I don't know what What can be done especially now To change that That's true And there is a hostility, a deep hostility Between these railings in the Palestinians On both sides It's palpable I've seen many videos of atrocities being committed By both sides Which is just a horrible consequence of war And conflict What do you think I'm Israel You're the Palestinians in Gaza If Every one of the people in Gaza Lay down the arms And stop attacking What would I Israel do to you?

1:47:10It's a good question Nothing They've tried it Five different times They literally like Stop attack Israel has never Not one time in history Initiated any conflict Every single one of those things that you're pointing to Is a retaliatory attack By a terrorist organization If that was switched Where I Israel You Hamas In Gaza I take all of my arms And all of my protection And I laid them down What would Hamas do They would kill every single one of us That's what they do That's what they're sworn to do That's their motto and the origin of their existence All the way back to the Grand Mufti Traveling too Hitler To ask how do we solve the Jewish problem?

1:48:05Like you want to follow from the Muslim brother Hamas to the Muslim brotherhood All the way back to the Grand Mufti To MuJadin And you see the origins of like one thing Which is how do I solve the Jewish problem Is to eradicate and kill them That is what Hamas came from Not the Palestinians Not those poor people stuck in Gaza But in that problem If all of Hamas Just went away We would have peace If they laid down their arms And they stopped murdering innocent civilians And raping women And killing babies You'd have peace If the other side Layed down their arms They would all be murdered All seven and a half million of them Until they were walking in blood Through the Jordan River How do you solve this problem?

1:48:53The radicals have to be eliminated The terrorists have to go away I'm not conflating the Palestinians And the terrorists Those are separate things But if there's two and a half million people They're living in Gaza They're allowing 30 ,000 terrorists to run them At some point The olive branch cannot be extended from Israel When 30 ,000 people are using that region To launch attacks into their sovereign nation And we were talking about the propaganda That exists in America What about the propaganda that exists in Palestine I mean, what is their thought Oh, it's crazy Did you see the hospital that got destroyed?

1:49:37Well, it didn't really, right? No, it did not really But the New York Times said it did The New York Times said it was a congresswoman Which is insane And they didn't retract it They said it was forcedy warmer And Israel destroyed a hospital So evil It's so crazy that they printed that in the New York Times That's the paper of record That's the most important newspaper that we have in America In terms of if we wanted an objective source of information Most people say, what's the best I used to deliver the New York Times When I was a kid And it wasn't even that profitable I delivered the Boston Globe was my main newspaper that I delivered And then I delivered the Boston Herald as well And then I got a New York Times route And I was proud of that Because the New York Times was the real newspaper That intelligent people read And it was a different, there was a different plastic wrapper You got a clear wrapper for the Herald And a clear wrapper for the Globe But for the New York Times I got a blue wrapper And I was like one of the people that got to deliver the New York Times And I remember thinking as a 20 year old kid Like oh boy, I'm delivering the New York Times And when I would drop the paper off of these people's houses Like that's a fucking smart house These people are reading the New York Times And they are Austin And I remember thinking that I was proud of that That I delivered the best newspaper in the world Really, I literally wasn't that much money And it was a crazy route Because I'd have to go like a mile in between houses Whereas with the Boston Globe I'd have like five, six houses on one street that I would drop off papers to And the New York Times I'd have this fucking crazy route I'd have to go all over the place to get rid of 100 newspapers Yeah, and then now in 2023 They're circulating a terrorist propaganda Yeah, and with no No repercussions And what did they make?

1:51:35Did they even print a retraction? Did they say we were fucked up? You watch a missile get launched from Gaza You get one third of all missiles that are launched from Gaza Land in Gaza Do you have to think about how sad that is? Is that real? 28 % of missiles launched from Hamas Land on top of the Palestinian people Jesus Christ And obviously they have no ability to Direct any military target When these crappy missiles are being launched into Israel They're just like populated area I went and did a Fox News Stand up in the city Directly north of Gaza That is the most rocketed city in all of Israel And in like the one day that we were there We had like six rocket attack sirens go off Yeah, it's the weirdest thing That the Palestinians are allowing Hamas to literally kill them And pillage everything about their existence from them Hamas is so rich And so 70 million dollars from Iran You know every humanitarian ship that comes into the port Or right now that is being brought up Through the Rafa Gait via Egypt Into the south portion of Gaza The moment that lands there That is taken control of by Hamas They then build underground infrastructure In the tunnels And they build military infrastructure And then they turn as whatever they can into rockets And the humanitarian aid that is supposed to be distributed to the people They have control of They have to go Not the Palestinians They have been so screwed by Hamas But the propaganda that they encounter In Palestine Has to be insane Yeah, they believe That They're on the good side How did they sift through fact from fiction When what they're being told And being fed is being fed to them by Hamas

1:53:49How do you How do they get access to Other information And how do they ever like organize And discuss this openly Without fear of losing their lives And being tortured The only time that you had consistent water and power going into Gaza Was when Israel was controlling Gaza Now that Hamas is running it It is just It is nightmarish in there But they're still in charge And they're being protected And And here in the United States Being like called freedom fighters Like they are barbaric Murderers and absolute terrorists That want nothing besides the genocide Of My when I saw Like the LGBTQ flags Of LGBTQ stands With the With Hamas Yeah, mind is blown Isn't it hilarious that you've ever seen that meme That it says Queers for Palestine Then Palestine for queers Like Yeah They wouldn't They wouldn't know They'd be pushed off a rooftop or burnt alive Immediately But they don't But the narrative in this country is not That it's which is so strange That like There's sort of overwhelming evidence About the approach that they have to gay people Yeah But yet, somehow or another There's this I stand with Palestine Thing that makes you a progressive Go to Tel Aviv as a gay person Walk around with your gay pride shirt With your husband Or wife Of the same sex Nobody will bat an eye at you Nobody cares Everybody's like what up You know like Normal Man, if She and her wife tried to walk down the road In in Gaza Oh, bro, man Yeah, and it is so This tender box that is That region With the West Bank With the gum heights of the North With Hezbollah Which is being supported by Iran They're all positioned on the border You know with Iraq allowing people from Afghanistan The Taliban to move through Taliban being funded by us Forty million dollars right now Is what we're continually giving them the Taliban Why do we do that?

1:56:15I die, I don't know I don't know What's the cynical side of you The this We want to recognize them as a legitimate government And we are Pain for them to start To start a democratic process Of like that that is the I think would be The tagline of what it actually what we want them to do What it is actually doing is the same thing that happens when we release six billion dollars to Iran In exchange for hostages They then take that six billion dollars No, they're not using that exact money to fund terrorism with Hezbollah or Hamas But I have one bank account that has an additional six billion dollars in it And now I'm able to spend six billion dollars over here to finance other things that are going to destabilize The nation that I have sworn to eradicate Israel and America So like cool, I'll happily give some more money to they've been planning this For four years The queets like the Iranian special operations guys Training and preparing Hamas Advising on how to execute this How do they get the intelligence to know What direction they need to fly with their paragliders which areas which you don't think they had scouts in all the Cobutzes around Gaza to identify which houses they're going to be targeting How do they find all that stuff out?

1:57:40The people that Israel was allowing out of Gaza to work as agricultural workers They were going into these areas and these cobutzes into these houses into these villages Doing recon for Hamas So then will Hamas launch their attack on October 7th They've been funded There's this amazing book called the new rules of war And the new rules of war lines out all of the ways that America is not prepared to fight a war By non -state actors, by corporations, by cartels, by violent extremist organizations using proxy methods So like we are at war with Iran Period They are funding every single group that just attacked our American base in Syria that attacked our American base in Iraq That attacked and killed a bunch of Americans in Israel that was funded by Iran and trained by Iran But we don't have the appetite to try and fight the war that they're fighting because they're doing it in just such a We want that war war too, like we want Patton standing on top of a tank coming across being like There's Rommel going get them Like that war is never going to happen again And we are just not ready to fight this new type of war under these new rules of war Which is fighting non -state actors, fighting proxy wars, fighting corporations, funded by governments, fighting cartels that are getting subsidized by governments All to destabilize the greatest nation to ever exist in the history of mankind Us You were saying that you think we're more vulnerable now than we've ever been before and you're legitimately worried that the United States might fall I am more worried now because of the lack of preparedness of the individual Americans are fatter than they've ever been They are even though there's more guns now owned There are few fewer per capita owned by individuals with people that train regularly with them People that are able to provide and protect for their families All the metrics of measurements of like that family is going to be okay That is the smallest that it's ever been And our government right now is more vulnerable internationally than we've ever been Our military is even though I'm so proud to be a service member When the army tells me to do something, I 100 % have no say whatsoever I got to go and do it and I'm really proud to be part of the most elite fighting force on the planet I think we are the weakest that we've ever been for a variety of reasons When you put all of these things together and you just take a step back and like the aggregate, like the accumulation of all of these different factors make me be like Holy crap, we are vulnerable The only way to combat that is the individual to start taking their own security and preparedness seriously Get less fat, get more healthy, go and train, go and buy a gun, start exercising your freedoms Learn what it means to volunteer in your school Cool, you can't start your own school, you can't homeschool Get involved in your kid's school, but you gotta do something because if we continue down the path that we're in, we're done for Like soon, not in like a generation, like right now, I'm scared, I'm in your quarter Jesus Christ

2:01:23There's a lot of people freaking out listening to this right now But that's good, there's a 20 year special forces do that in the past three years has been in For gigantic international crisis in three years I've spent my entire adult life doing this, I run companies that train people to do this Like the sole mission statement of the large company and every single subsidiary under them Ultimately goes down to preparing people to provide for their families to protect themselves and to expand freedom Like I was just going to the wave top, my elevator pitch would be like, that's all we do And I'm scared But for us not to hit the Titanic, it only took a couple of degrees change And for that Titanic, not to hit that iceberg, it would have just been like early enough us We're turning it just slightly I don't think we're past a point where that can still be changed, where we can still avoid this What would be the catalyst of destruction for this nation But the individual has to step up Well the individual, but also we have to have changes in the approach that the government has Oh yeah lobbyists have to go away, these gigantic packs have to go away We have to have age limits and term limits Like these things don't happen Our republic is in a bad place How cool would it be if we just had age and term limits with, within Congress It would be pretty nice at this point I mean when you see Mitch McConnell just fucking windows 98 out I mean Diane Feinstein voted the day before she died Did you see her aid that was like hitting her?

2:03:14You're supposed to vote yea on this Vote yea That should be illegal How is it not? How is it not? That's like she's not voting anymore You're voting for her, you're dictating how she should vote She's one of the most empowered people in the world That aid was making that decision off of the lobbyists that were telling her what to do All the special interests that were saying on these issues this is how you're going to vote And then that aid went and effectively voted for a congresswoman See that is It's insane Yeah, well this meme of George Washington with like the four tube nods He's like me and my homies would already be slaying right now It's true, you know they would Yeah But people don't even recognize what a danger it is It got so little outrage in the mainstream So many people were just so ignorant to what was going on It's almost like there's too much to pay attention to when things like this happen People are so overwhelmed by that's also the thing about the news cycle of today You are being bombarded constantly with things to worry about And then when there's nothing to worry about then they hit you with climate change When there's nothing to worry about then they hit you with something else There's like a constant barrage of things to occupy your attention And meanwhile decisions are being made that slowly erode Everything in this country is supposed to be founded for Yeah We are the greatest nation to exist in the history of mankind And in the cycle of dynasties of empires We're at the right limit of the average one of those And um you know Rome didn't die in a day Right It was a slow decay of the things that made them special Um

2:05:20We're still the greatest ever And it's not It's not you know I can and I will be positive and I will be hopeful that How do we fix this like what do you think Joe? Like what are the things that an individual can do in a day? It seems so insurmountable right like oh Tim like I can't fix Congress like I don't get to pick the next president I'm only in charge of me Okay be in charge of you What does that look like? Right we need a polar shift in the understanding of the importance of that And I don't think you're getting that from many places And I think really the only way you're getting that from his individuals like you speaking about it People talking about it online People that aren't Captured by these massive institutions and corporations that do have a very specific Narrative that they're discussing always and constantly That you're not getting this kind of these kind of conversations They don't exist in the mainstream news They don't exist anywhere else Other than independent media And that's with so strange And it's one of the reasons why independent media has become so huge Is because people are confused It's like why am I not being told what's really going on in some sort of an objective sense?

2:06:35Why am I not being informed of all the variety of things That are playing against the things that make this country great Why is the concept of freedom being downplayed as some sort of a far right perspective Which is so strange So strange Fitness is far right Eating is racist Eating is racist Eating is racist It's so crazy It's so crazy that they've managed to marginalize almost every positive thing And put it into a category of either racist or discriminatory or Home of phobic or whatever the fuck it is So there's a fascinating not a study example of China combating information wise So like TikTok The advertised men that are being fed to let's say a 14 year old boy He's seen like soft porn He's seen like scantily clad girls He's seen like drug vape things And in America that is the constant ad that he's being fed And you know like going party be a TikTok star be a YouTube influencer like these are the things he's been fed non -stop That exact same age person in China on a China app They're talking about becoming a strong contributing member of the Chinese society Being good in school, being a good athlete Yeah scientific accomplishment 9 -day A and B A America they're fed things that destroy the individual B in China They're being fed things that make the individual stronger and a better person in that society But the only way that you can get that is you have to give the government control And the government has to be doing it for the world They have to be doing it for the overall good of the nation That's what their perspective is When they're trying to make stronger Chinese citizens They're doing it because of a very specific government mandate That's trying to strengthen China They want their men to be more manly They want all these things to take place That will strengthen their nation And what do they want from Americans?

2:08:54They want us to be weaker They want us to be weaker They want to be fatter, they want us to be more mentally unwell Yeah But I don't think people realize that that's what it is I think when people are trying to be a TikTok influencer What are they saying? Well, I don't want to work in a fucking insurance company Like, what other job can I do? Can I just like make wild wacky videos of me eating And I can make more money than I would ever if I got a college degree Like, yeah, you can Yeah, you want to be the richest person on the planet right now? In Austin? Being construction? Being electrician?

2:09:26Be a plumber? Do you know how much those people are charging right now here? Yeah Well, this is a boom town They're worth like $200 ,000 Average income of a good electrician here in Austin right now You go to two years of trade school to become an electrician Right? You spend a year and a half to, as an apprentice And then you go and you start working for a couple of years for a guy that owns a shop You go and start your own Your electrician business is going to be worth $10 million in three years here in Austin But it takes a little bit of work I'll give that to you, but you're not going to do the work To be worth $10 million in three, four years from now To do something that like, that is another wild thing Is like some of these jobs have been demonized You know, it's not cool to be a plumber It's not cool to be an electrician, it's not cool to be a rougher I'll tell you what, it's pretty cool to have a badass truck And be able to go hunt whenever you want, be able to hang out with your kids And make it every single weekend that they're across our hockey games Because you have successful businesses And you just did a little bit of work for a few years to build that thing It's very bizarre that we've somehow or another demonized blue collar work And put white collar work on a pedestal Whereas like, the freedom comes from owning your own business That's real freedom Sovereignty Yeah, that's right Real personal sovereignty Not having to report to some asshole that doesn't give a fuck about you And might fire you as soon as the company takes a downward turn Oh, you've worked with that company for 25 years, sorry Here's a month's severance pay, kick rocks And that happens to people over and over again All the time And they get so disillusioned and so disenfranchised and depressed And so then the doctor puts them on medication Yeah And then they start eating crap food And then they stop sleeping And then they stop being intimate with their partner What was me?

2:11:15Yep, and just Yeah And that has been the cycle for the past 30 years Well, we can break that cycle Right? You get up early, you go and work out Man, I got a nine to five And I have to leave it eight to commute Got it, wake up at six Yeah You get an hour to work out You get a great breakfast from the chickens Then you just walk out And you pick up like these fantastic 10 grams of protein Micro nutrient rich things And you put them in a pan with some just butter Don't use anything else Stay with them, seed oils Then you come home from work I got it, you got a 30 minute commute through traffic That sucks Go, do what you did to Come back and have dinner with your family Put the biggest smile on your wife's face After you guys pass out in bed Dude, repeat for a couple of years Start your own business Yeah People need to hear that And they don't, they don't hear it anywhere Which is crazy They hear it from a few places But I look at like the Evans You know, Black Rifle Coffee Yeah Mike Glover at Field Craft Survival Johnny Premill, a course of action You know, Jack Carr from, you know Not just his success as an author But also as a businessman Like we could just go down the list of all of these guys that Just grabbed the reins of their horse and started directing it And the thing that they were passionate about With discipline, a process, and hard work Those three things yet again And look at where they are right now And I'm like so proud to call them friends But more importantly, I'm so proud that they're Americans Because that's the idea And it's not this unattainable thing Like you're calling it unattainable Because you don't want to do the work necessary To be successful at it Wasn't Mike Glover put on some very fucking bizarre list Yeah, he was called a radical extremist By that FBI Because he was telling people How to can food and pickle things That you should be prepared in case something goes south Yeah, they thought How bizarre is that?

2:13:10This administration would, and will not call Hamas The radical extremist, violent extremist organization And terrorist organization that they are But will call mega people Radical insurrectionists The two party justice thing that we got going on right now That is dangerous for a republic Mike Glover is an amazing dude He served as country for 20 years You know, he was my boss for a little bit on the special operation side We went to sniper school together Saved my butt in sniper school Do you know the story? No Dude Okay, not that I need to talk about how amazing Mike Glover is But he's an amazing human All those dudes, you know, Andy and Mike Sirelli It's just great people So I'm writing a book right now called The Purpose of Pain And my sniper partner during sniper school He is dealing with a bunch of stuff Trauma from his last appointment And I am such a selfish little prick I am more concerned about being like the number one shooter in the school Than my brother that is next to me every single day Right?

2:14:23Like, we're sitting here on a stalk I'm with him for 20, 30 hours at a time And we're sitting here looking to back the tree We're discussing every single thing But I'm not listening Into what he's actually telling me And he's pouring it all out there Because I'm too concerned with like, you know, Being special forces sniper school on our graduate Or something stupid that I was at the time Ultimately, during the field shoot Which is a must pass event during sniper school In the middle of it, he stands up and he quits Literally just stands up and says He makes a win call in the opposite of the win direction So I see a left to right So we should take the target, dissect it And hold into the win So the bullet travels and hit the target right So I see a left to right and he gives me a right call And I was like, amen Give me a different call, you're missing this And he's like, I'm freaking out with it And I see his eyes start like darting around And he's just like getting the pressure And he stands up, he's like, I quit In the middle of sniper school And so the instructor's right And I tell him you're out, I'm like, I'm not out Like, I still got a shot Such a selfish prick I just want to go back to that 26 year old kid And smash him in the face Anyways, so I'm like I'm going to graduate I just need a bullet and a target I can do it right now, let me lay down I'll make my own win call And like, this is sniper school, it's you and a partner So they walk over to the people that have already shot And they say, hey, I need one person To volunteer for Tim With one target, with one bullet It's a go -no -go, he gets a first round hit, he graduates He misses, he's out of school And this is to like the pool of people Mike Glover's hand pops up I know him, we're both in this special mission Like this unit called the CRIF of a SIF at the time The commander's an extremist force It's a special operations counter -terrorism Hostage rescue unit within special forces So like, it's a very small pool of people So I knew who he was And his hand goes up The instructor, check this, he goes Okay, what if your graduation depends on this shot?

2:16:31Mike's words wouldn't change my answer I don't know if, I've never shot with him He volunteers and effectively puts his graduation go -no -go Of special forces sniper school On me to come and lay down with me to make a shot So they get me an M118LR It's a 175 grain match grade bullet For my 308 And they walk over and they go, here's your bullet There's your target So we measure it It's slightly over 700 meters We get our wind call We take this shot And as the bullet travels, you see a thing called trace It's a displacement of vapor in the air And it looks like this laser beam And when you're shooting really far, especially with a large kind of slower bullet 2600 feet per second For a 175 grain bullet And you see this laser Going directly towards the target So the moment I press that trigger Mike's like center center hit Before it even hits, right?

2:17:25Before we even see the impact of that 40 by 20 target And B, you see the splash But it takes three, four seconds for the sound of the impact to reach us So like, I see the trace I know it's going to be hit Mike stands up and he just starts walking off Boom, center impact And they're like, where are you going? And he's like, with Tim as graduates Like, no big deal, just volunteered to shoot with the dude that he has known Like, that is the Mike Glover that I know And that was the Mike Glover that was condemned That has spent 20 years serving his country in the military And then spent an additional 10 years as a contractor working for the three -letter agencies Protecting America And then they have the audacity to label somebody like that It's infuriating Has he been removed from that list?

2:18:18I have, it was, I am honest Odd that you asked me that Because I've kicked When I'm building these manifests to fly these people out of these countries I want to make sure I'm bringing back good people Right? So we run We check to see if their names and their passport numbers and their date of births are on any lists Where I want to bring one of these people into the United States that's on a list I have a bunch of times even in the past couple of weeks I was like, I might just run Mike to see if he's still on there But then I didn't want to because I didn't want to run a name And I'm here to be on there or him not to be on there And then them to look at me to see that I ran his name unnecessarily Oh God You know, yeah that's not good What a fucked up dilemma Yeah So I don't know, I don't know if he's on that list He shouldn't be, the dude's an amazing American But the, just the motivation to put him on that list is so fucking strange He's teaching people to be prepared I'm like shadow band, if you try to share one of my posts today You're going to get a notification from Instagram that I am sharing misinformation And if you try to follow me on Instagram if you go to Tim Kennedy MMA You won't find me You have to go down until I have like a couple million followers And you will not find a verified, you'll see 20 fake Tim Kennedys Until you find the verified Tim Kennedy And then if you click on it and you say follow It will give you a thing that says Tim Kennedy spreads misinformation And you have to say, okay, follow for you to follow me on Instagram Didn't they tell you that you had to remove certain factual posts?

2:20:00Yeah, I did I deleted them all And what were they? One was that Epstein didn't kill himself The other one What the fuck does that have to do? Imagine that being a controversial position Yeah Well, there's three of them That was one of them The second one was I listed Economic problems within the American government That a couple trillion dollars was missing before 9 -11 And the Donald Rumsfeld speech That's the one Yeah He specifically said But he did not say missing Right He said unaccounted for So the third party fact checker that I got a strike from Because I said that we were missing over 2 trillion dollars From or 2 billion dollars before 9 -11 That then went missing after 9 -11 They said no, no, no He didn't say missing He said unaccounted for So you were spreading misinformation That was strike number two Did you go back and edited or did you have to delete it?

2:21:07No, I still deleted the whole entire thing Yeah Just keep your account Yeah, to keep my account But I'm still like you Like I said Can't be searched Won't pop on discovery Can't share my posts Can't follow me Yeah You know, it's like They're doing the thing And then the third one was My son and I were playing Nerf And it was a video In like first person Of me chasing my At the time Seven -year -old Worth a Nerf gun And they said that I was A violated The community guidelines of sharing violence And encouraging violence And it was a nerf battle Between me and my seven -year -old Which I also deleted But that post currently still says Like your strike is from Violating the community guidelines of encouraging violence And Nerf guns A nerf battle with my seven -year -old What about video games?

2:22:04If you play like Some like War simulation video game Does that? Is that a violation as well? I don't know I know they They dig people on hunting Like you have That Montana Montana Knife Company hat Josh from Montana Knife Company Just posted something that He's been attacked Because he showed a hunting photo Because his wife killed Lates, he's an elk With a rifle And they said a photo of this Nozzler rifle, this beautiful rifle The elk that they shot The animal that they harvested That they're going to eat And that got Notification that his Account cannot be shown to Anyone other than his followers It's insane Like what?

2:22:52What are we doing? A great small business guy That gives back an incredible Another great human Where one of my friends Af, he's a command Surgeon major and seven special forces group And they do this thing In this like change of responsibility Where they give gifts And normally it's like something Dumb like a lighter that's engraved Right, so I hit up Josh as I came in, one of my homies Like I went to war with this guy I love this man to death Af is like one of the greatest humans To ever walk the face of the planet Kind of like I buy some knives And like hook me up You know, with a good deal He makes the seventh Special forces group red color For the their The emblem that you wear on your beret That red he puts on the handle Of the speed goat Then he makes it black And then he takes the crest And he puts it on the blade And then he sends it to him To give to his dudes And like never saw an invoice You know, just like Josh being Josh dude No, he's the best I went pig hunting with him recently Such a good guy An amazing business An amazing story of a guy Who he came up with a name Montana knife company And copywriter or patented Or whatever I think he was 19 years old Yeah And the company has only been around for a couple years And is fucking gigantic It's huge, it's killing it They make great knives Amazing knives I'm trying to talk him into Making some fights So like obviously while I was I didn't want to get murdered by a bunch of terrorists When I was overseas so I had stuff To like take care of me And I send Josh a photo of Me with one of like one of his bigger knives It's like I kept it right underneath my body armor As I was cruising around The that kind of Contested area of southern Israel And that knife is just like sitting Under underneath my body armor And thankfully I never had to use it But it would also have been A pit road Ascent to Josh And you'd be like dude I don't want to see this You were such a psychopath Right, it would have been a blast though Yeah, he probably doesn't want to see that But it's It's just insane that kind of censorship And I don't understand it I don't understand who it's be like Who is following him in the first place?

2:25:17I mean he makes a hunting knife company It's a hunting knife company Who doesn't benefit from the hunting sense? Me and I don't understand it It's leftist people that are involved in these organizations That have a very specific Ideology that they adhere to And they think that anybody who is pro -America In some way shape or form Negative And I don't get it And I'm sure I'm on some of those lists Yeah for sure But I'm like weirdly I fucking sneak through You're kind of too big to mess with It's odd Well, I'm friends with Zuckerberg It's nice Yeah, that'd be nice I can text him and go, hey man What the fuck is going on with this Yeah, you know And he's a good guy But his company is run I mean he's a publicly traded company That is Filled with people that are in the tech industry And I think a lot of those people Are out of their fucking mind They're out of their fucking mind And I had a conversation with Elon about it last night Where we discuss he calls, he says it's a death cult So these people are death cult They think that there should be less human beings They think the human beings are the problem And they They just have this Specific ideology That they want to push on everyone And anything that's Even remotely opposed to that Like hunting How many people fucking eat meat And somehow and other They think that hunting Somehow and other is in opposition To this leftist position Yeah Axe has gotten really fun Axe is so much fun now It's so much more fun That wild motherfucker Spent $44 billion and he We discussed it last night We did a podcast last night And he said I don't want to sound melodramatic But I did it to save humanity And I think it's true It's the only place that I can have a rational conversation And actually say what I think As you should be able to do in the first amendment way And not worry about getting banned Yeah And I'm not saying Like you could go and read every single thing That I've ever said on Twitter I'm not saying wild stuff There's no inappropriate I try to say some funny things sometimes But not like any of your freaking hilarious Comedian friends like the dude that just walked out That guy is so funny He's the man Dude he is so funny I got him working out Dude I got those guys working out I brought my buddy Brian Simpson He was here, Duncan Trussell is here Matt McCusker I told those guys I go if you want to work out I will take you to a workout I go I won't kill you We're going to build up slowly So today was the third day I've got them pushing themselves But nothing crazy I don't want to break you down I don't want you injured I go I will develop a very specific program And get you up to speed And as long as you stay consistent You will see radical changes In your life and every measurable way And they're seeing it I got them cold plunging I got them in the sauna They wanted to quit They wanted to quit like we just do 10 minutes I go fuck that I go you doing 20 minutes I threw water on the rocks I go now let's make it harder We're going to do 20 minutes man And I go when it's done You're going to feel good that you got through those 20 minutes Because those last 10 are going to suck Because you get in the first couple of minutes Like this is not that bad I go right it's not that bad yet But until 10 minutes comes around 10 minutes is going to feel uncomfortable But you can survive it And you just have to learn how to Just accept the fact that you're suffering Yeah, just deal with it That's so awesome And then they get in the cold plung afterwards And in the beginning You can only do like a minute So he's like, fuck this And I'm like listen man, it's all in your mind And you're going to realize that when you do it a second time And a third time and now he's doing three minutes So he gets in there And that endorphins serotonin He's like, I'm on Molly Yeah, yeah, because what happens is Your endorphins, your dopamine ramps up by 200 % Naturally in a healthy way It makes you nicer to people that you're running to You feel better and it lasts for hours and hours throughout the day Who's the Stanford neuroscient?

2:29:18Huberman. Huberman He did a podcast on benefits And also the approach and methodology And process of cold plunging and sauna Yeah, and like I've just Copy and pasted that whole entire Yeah, again, here it is Discipline process and hard work I took his process the way that he recommended to do this For both sauna and cold plung And just life changing Huberman got censored by Wikipedia You know what happened? Huberman, I had Robert F. Kennedy Jr on my podcast And Huberman made a comment And that comment was I hope that more presidential candidates Submit to long term conversations like this That's all he said They removed all his published papers All of his peer reviewed All of his work All of his papers That are scientific papers They removed all that from Wikipedia You no longer see How is that possible?

2:30:15How is it? How insane is that? And they locked down his account Where you can't edit it anymore And they said something about I don't know what negative thing I don't want to even say about it But it's fucking insane So what does Elon do? He offers Wikipedia a billion dollars To change their name to Dicapedia Is he just a crazy person? He's a wild motherfucker He's a wild motherfucker He really wants to fight Zuckerberg He said it last night He wants to fight him in the Colosseum He said I'll fight him in a house With a mouse I don't give a fuck Let's do it I'm like you really want to fight him?

2:30:51I would love to Let's do it He needs to start training Make sure you get him on the Yes, he thinks he can just do it with no training Which is the Dunning Kruger effect Someone who's very smart at one thing Things they're created everything It's unfortunate Because I was trying to discuss with him He's talking about the size difference I'm like yeah You need a role with someone who's like 145 pounds Like my friend Gabe Tuddle at 10th planet you just You could just fucking strangle you To me Trist Johnson So take this tiny little human and like Good luck with that Good fucking luck Good luck deal with that Badger That's skillful Intelligent Badger Wildly gifted Physically intellectually I think he was an underappreciated One of the best Ever He's the best expression of martial arts I've ever seen And when he was in his prime I don't think anybody was better than Demetrius Johnson Do you watch Francis' fight?

2:31:50Amazing. He won He won that fight They know he won that fight He won on one judge's scorecard Who was honest And I think the judge only gave him one round Or I think he should have given him two Should have won by more than one point But at least one judge scored it right And then that other judge He scored it 96 -93 for Tyson Fury Should go to jail Get the fuck out And then the other one Was the other one It was 95 -94 In favor of Tyson Fury Which is great, or 96 -95 Whatever it was It's a lucky fucking dropped One of the greatest heavyweights If not the greatest besides him Fubby left hook too Amazing And he looked for that left hook over and over again It was clearly something they were looking for And look he's fucking incredible To have your first boxing match Ever against the Lineal heavyweight champion A six foot nine Fucking juggernaut Who's been beating everybody And rock him And then rock him again in the eighth round With a barrage of punches I mean it was fucking amazing performance Amazing one of the greatest Combat sports performances In the history of the arts Of the history I was like wow I was screaming My dog freaked out I was like it's okay It's okay buddy Daddy's happy He's scary Oh my god he's amazing And when you see that guy's origin story When you want to talk about a man who persevered That guy for 14 months He made his way from Cameroon To Morocco And seven times He's got arrested and sent back To the fucking Sahara Desert And made his way right back to Morocco And finally made it across to Europe And a raft was in prison for months And then lived as a homeless person In a fucking parking garage In France Amazing The movement that he had made From Cameroon and to Morocco I've traversed multiple times It is Holacious And then it is like the most unforgiving train With radical groups With property owners Like water to water trying to travel The water is controlled by warlords So His story is just like so inspiring It's incredible It's a comic book story It's like an origin story in a movie That you wouldn't believe And to have this guy Go in his first ever boxing match Against a guy who nobody gave him any Any chance And to have the Las Vegas odds Like the online betting odds In the last round In his favor Was fucking incredible Because it was like 14 to 1 At the start of the fight And at the end of the fight he was favored And he should have won Dude He should have won They fucked him But they didn't because the world saw it Like you could write all the bullshit you want In terms of scorecards The fucking world including boxers All the boxers that were there Said that he should have won But now He gets another gigantic payday His perceived worth is through the roof Skyrocketed Tyson Fury is not going to fight him again I'll tell you that He didn't want no part of that They tried to bring that up He was like, no I'm going to fight I don't know If I was in Ghanu As much as I love watching him fight MMA I would tell him You're going to make so much money in boxing And I think he might be able to beat them all I think he's that good I think he's that much of a freak Well he was always more of a striker than anything else anyway But he's such a quick study If you look at the fight with Cyril Ghan He beats Cyril Ghan with grappling With a fucking completely blown out knee I mean he took an immense chance Like he's not a Never has been a grappler No real background in grappling He goes and out grapples A guy that has been doing this for a long time Amazing He's an incredible person He's incredible and the fact that he gambled on himself He vacated the UFC heavyweight title Which is the most prestigious title in all of combat sports You can say anything you want about the world heavyweight boxing champion But everybody fucking knows That the world heavyweight UFC champion Will fuck that dude up in a real fight That's the reality of the world That's the reality of everybody knows that Especially everybody who knows He's the baddest dude on the planet He's the baddest dude on the planet 100 % And the only person that has a chance is John Jones And John Jones unfortunately just tour His fucking pack off the bone That video is heartbreaking Horrible to see Horrible to see because I was really looking for that fight with Steve Bay But in a perfect world Francis makes a fucking cajillion dollars And then the UFC resigns him And then he fights John Jones for the most epic encounter In the history of combat sports Dude That is a perfect world But at least Francis He got his flowers from the whole world The whole world saw it You can fucking lie all you want You can have your bullshit scorecards You can have your paid off judges You can have your corruption You can have your nonsense Everybody knows what happened in that fight And what happened in that fight was Francis and Ghana beat the best heavyweight boxer Maybe ever Maybe ever And then what happens if he fights all those other guys Or what happens That motherfucker hits so hard And I was always wondering How was his power with the big gloves on Well, we fucking know The look on Tyson Fury's eyes When he went down in the third round From that left hook, he was like Oh Jesus It was a weird, it was a clubbing You know, there was not a lot of ass behind it He had stepped into it, he didn't turn a shoulder over He just hit him with a hook And it put him All the way to Karistreet Yeah, he was on Karistreet for sure And you know, there was a moment in the second round That I yelled at, it was like Oh, he heard him there There was a second round There was a moment in the clinch Where he hit Tyson Fury with an uppercut But then the commentators didn't even notice it He hit it with the right hand over the top And the right hand was a short clubbing right hand And you see the look in Tyson Fury's eyes Where he's like, Jesus That power is fucking extraordinary But not just the power But the intelligence to deliver that power In the most high pressure situation imaginable Your first boxing match Is against the Gypsy King A six foot nine fucking phenom Who's one of the best to ever do it To ever do it Amazing And he just fucking Cashed his own check I mean, he is the man now I mean, he's in demand Everywhere, everybody saw that fight It was a huge fight And now they're talking about him fighting Dionty Wilder They're talking about him fighting some other people Anthony Joshua stepped up Whoo I love pugilistic sports You know And as crazy as this world has been Wrestling, boxing and MMA Intrigue 2 has been so fun From this last ADCC To UFC, the past Five, six, not the most recent card But three or four of them this year I've just been dynamite, tons of finishes Lots of like watching Sean Strickland, his rise And like beating what I thought Stylistically to be a very hard matchup So like God, I love martial arts Oh, it's amazing Another thing that I wish every single American would pour themselves into Because it is the reward that you get from it Is Well, everybody wants to talk about the bullying crisis But the counterintuitive solution to the bullying crisis Is teach bullies how to fight Teach everyone how to fight Not just the victims Right Man, I want every bully to come into my Jiu -Jitsu school Because they won't be bullies anymore They won't and what it is is a deep Insecurity And this desire to impose Yourself on other people To somehow another make yourself feel better Because you are lacking And if you are not lacking, you don't want to do that Do you think Francis and Ghana is a bully He's not, he's a very nice guy All the most savage Jews on the planet They're nicest guys They're the nicest, sweetest, graceful people And another Jordan Peterson Philosophical perspective on A good man isn't a useless man A good man is a man that is capable of violence But chooses to be kind Yes, chooses to be graceful And I 100 % agree and subscribe Be a monster and learn how to control it Just an absolute My mom hates this word, savage But a savage under control is somebody like Would you rather be the gardener In the war or the warrior in the garden I want to be able to create I want to be able to write I want to be the contributor and a good lover And a good father and a good entrepreneur But call a spade a spade I will wear your skin I will destroy everything about your life I will salt the fields I'm talking like scorched earth Permanent destruction of everything that you love If you come at me or towards mine Then inversely My kids will never have Ever understand The level of violence that I'm capable of To be as kind and as gentle as I am to them Yeah That's what I want I want that for everybody Let's wrap this up with that, that's perfect Tim Kennedy, you're the fucking man I love you, thank you for Giving people like me opportunity to talk about the things that we love And believing I was really struggling like Man, I don't know if we can talk about this But thank you It's complicated and it's difficult But it's important and thank you for being you Because there's not a lot of people that can express it the way you have Thanks, appreciate it Bye everybody

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Tim Kennedy is a Green Beret, retired UFC fighter, founder of Sheepdog Response, and co-founder of Save our Allies: an organization dedicated to rescuing and relocating Americans and allies in war-torn environments.  www.timkennedy.com 
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